Geology and Geophysics at The University of Kansas

GhawkerGeology and Geophysics at The Universi ty of Kansas

Fall 2013

On the cover: While much has changed in KU’s Field Camp in Colorado, much remains the same. One-on-one teaching is still key. Here Field Camp Director Doug Walker waits for Geology 560 students to join him during a mapping trip in June 2013. Photo by Diane Silver.

Hello and welcome to the 2013 G-Hawker! KU Geology has had another great year in Lawrence, and a prosperous and successful year in the field and in collaboration with alumni around the world.

Fundraising for the new Earth, Energy and Environment complex is moving for-ward swiftly. We’re getting closer to our goal, and I’m standing ready with a shovel for the groundbreaking. With your help, we will soon be able to dig in and start construction on this state-of-the-art facility. All of us at KU Geology are profoundly grateful for the financial support you have given to us for this vital project.

I am also pleased to report that we have hired two new faculty members. Noah McLean will be coming on board in August 2014 as an assistant professor and geo-chronologist. As I write this, Noah is working with the British Geologic Survey in Nottingham in the U.K. He will be joining us when he has finished his commitment there. Noah earned his doctorate at MIT, studying with our old friend, Professor Sam Bowring (PhD ’85).

Kelsey Bitting has already joined the faculty as a visiting assistant professor. She arrived in August to work with our faculty on a comprehensive revision of our under-graduate curriculum. Over the next three years, Kelsey will coordinate the transformation of six key courses. (See page 15 for more information on this project.) Kelsey comes to us from Rutgers University where she completed her doctorate in geology in May 2013.

Our faculty also continues to lead in research, teaching and service. In the last year, we have advanced the geosciences around the globe, working everywhere from the Antarctic to Greenland with stops in between in Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, the Bahamas, South Africa, China, Germany, Spain, Kiribati and Japan, among other destinations. And of course, our faculty members continue to win top honors. Among them is Assistant Professor Leigh Stearns, who won a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. I am also pleased to congratulate Craig Marshall on receiving tenure and being promoted to Associate Professor.

Service remains a priority. For example, KU geoscientists are leading two of the field’s top organizations. Professor Evan Franseen is serving as the president of The Society for Sedimentary Geology, while McGee Dis-tinguished Professor Don Steeples is the president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

This year KU Geology graduated a record number of undergraduates and master’s students. The recruit-ment of top-notch students remained strong, and as always, our students have excelled. Doctoral candidate Blair Benson Schneider was named one of KU’s Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellows. Other students made their mark by interning with NASA and speaking at Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum, among other successes. We also fielded the Department’s first Imperial Barrel Award team. With the help of alumni Nathan Geier and Marty Dubois and associate professors George Tsoflias and Anthony Walton, our team won honors in its inaugural IBA competition.

This year we held alumni receptions at the Geological Society of America meeting in Charlotte, N.C., and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists conference in Pittsburgh, among other places. For the first time, we also hosted a dinner at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. I had a great time meet-ing and talking with many of you, and I do hope to see you this coming year. (For a list of receptions, see page 6.)

As always, the year has also brought changes to the Department. Don Steeples has begun phased retirement, cutting back to half time. Don has done so much for the geosciences at KU, and for me personally. Through his innovation, vision and leadership, he elevated the reputation of geophysics at the University. He also mentored many new faculty members, me included. I looked up to him before I came to Lawrence, and from my first day at KU, I sought his advice. We are going to miss Don tremendously.

We are looking forward to the coming year—to new students, new faculty members and new successes. While other things may change, KU Geology and its pursuit of excellence remains the same.

- Luis A. González, Chair

FROM THE CHAIR

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Fall 2013

Geology and Geophysics at The University of Kansas

FEATURES

26 A Pacific Encounter: How Do You Really Understand Sea Fans?

32 On the Threshold: Earth, Energy & Environment Center to Propel KU Geology

36 Dollars and Good Sense: KU Geoscientists Grow the Kansas Economy

2 FIELD NOTES

8 FACULTY UPDATE

16 Dispatches from Cañon City

24 KGS46 GEOLOGY ASSOCIATES51 RETROSPECTIVE56 STUDENT NEWS60 ALUMNI NEWS69 MEMORIALS71 DEPARTMENT DIRECTORY

2 G-HAWKER Fall 2013

FIELD NOTES

Doctoral candidate Blair Benson Schneider won KU’s prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship for 2012-2016. As a Self Fellow, she will receive $29,000 a year and get specialized training in communication, management and leadership. The training program is designed to prepare Self Fellows for a future as leaders.

Blair blends geophysics and archaeology to develop noninvasive techniques for identifying and excavating archeological sites. Her professional goal is to advance near-surface geophysical imaging methods for private sec-tor and government research. She is the president of the Association for Women Geoscientists Osage Chapter, the south-central delegate for the AWG board, and co-founder and director of the KU Geology Mentor Program.

Blair is a student of Don Steeples, McGee Distinguished Professor, and Rolfe Mandel, executive director of the ODYSSEY research program at the KGS and a KU anthropology professor. She is also working with Associ-ate Professor George Tsoflias.

In recent years, KU Geology’s Self Fellows have included Erin Saupe, Corinne Myers, Peter Schillig, Brian Platt and Alycia Stigall.

Schneider Wins Coveted Self Fellowship

The Geochemical Society has named Union Pacific Resources Professor J. Douglas Walker as one of only four winners of its 2013 Distinguished Service Award.

Given at the discretion of the Society’s Board of Directors, the award recognizes outstanding service to the discipline. Walker and his co-winners were honored for their “long-running efforts to bring modern online data management to geochemistry.”

Walker was recognized for his work on Earth-Chem, www.earthchem.org, and NAVDAT, www.

navdat.org. Other researchers were recognized for their work on GeoReM and GEOROC.

“Their contributions in data compilation and improvements to the standard of data reporting in the geochemical community are paving the way to a future where geochemical data can be efficiently preserved, easily and intelligently queried and discovered, and thereby be used for scientific discovery by the broad geoscience research and education community,” the citation read.

Geochemical Society Lauds Walker

Geology 561 students jump for joy as they finish their last mapping assignment of the course.

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FIELD NOTES

Stearns Wins CAREER AwardThe NSF has awarded Assistant Professor Leigh Stearns a CAREER grant totaling more than $650,000. Stea-

rns’ project is entitled “Improving Understanding of Antarctic Glacier Dynamics Through an Interactive Numeri-cal Flowline Model.”

Stearns seeks to understand the flow dynamics of Antarctic glaciers by means of a physically based numerical model. The model will be used to systematically investigate the dynamics of Antarctic glaciers and to test their response to a variety of perturbations.

The speed at which outlet glaciers move exert major control over ice sheets and can contribute to the rise of sea levels. “It is essential that their (glaciers) sensitivity to a range of dynamic processes is properly understood and incorporated into prognostic ice sheet models,” Stearns says.

Chair Luis A. González says the award recognizes Stearns as one of the leading scientists in the nation.“A CAREER Award is probably the top honor for early career scientists,” he says. “They have to be making

an impact in their discipline. They have to be recognized by their peers as setting the trends, setting the direction of their discipline.”

González praises Stearns. “Leigh is doing very well,” he says. “She is getting grants, she is already getting students, and she is recognized by many in her area of expertise as being one of the most promising new scien-tists. She is a leader.”

González and Ludvigson Elected GSA Fellows

Professor and KU Geology Chair Luis A. González and KGS Senior Scientist Greg Ludvigson have been named Fellows of the 25,000-member Geological Society of America.

GSA describes Fellowship as “an honor that is bestowed on the best of our profession.” Fellows are chosen in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of the geosciences through publications, presentations, leadership in professional organizations, teaching and promotion of scientific advances to the public.

“González has a strong and consistent record of scholarly publication and of training students in the geosci-ences,” says Rex C. Buchanan, the interim director of the KGS. “He is particularly distinguished by his abiding and genuine concern for colleagues, and especially by his role as role model and mentor for minority students.”

Buchanan says, “Greg has made significant research contributions in paleoclimatology as well as in his ad-ministration of the county geologic mapping program at the Kansas Geological Survey. He also advises graduate students at the University of Kansas and lectures widely.”

KU’s Society of Exploration Geophysicists chapter produced this award-winning photo, which was featured on the cover of SEG’s Leading Edge magazine.


FIELD NOTES

KU’s team of Erica Dalman, Hunter Harlow, Brett Judy, Jennifer Giselle Lowery and Luis Montalvo Lliteras took 3rd place in the Mid-Continent Section of AAPG’s Imperial Barrel Award Contest. This is the first time KU has entered a team in the IBA contest.

“We are pleased to see how well our team did in our first competition,” says Chair Luis A. González. “Team mentors learned a lot first time out and expect great things in the future.”

The team was assisted by advisors associate professors George Tsoflias and Anthony Walton and alumni Nathan Geier and Marty Dubois.

“George, Tony, Nathan and Marty did a fantastic job,” González says. “The students were lucky to have their help.”

In the competition, university teams analyze a dataset (geology, geophysics, land, production infrastructure and other relevant materials) in the eight

weeks prior to their local competition. Each team delivers their results in a 25-minute presentation to a panel of industry experts.

The contest provides students with the chance to use state of the art technology on a real dataset, receive feedback from an industry panel, impress potential employers in the audience and win cash awards for their school. The judges select teams to honor on the basis of the technical quality, clarity and originality of presentation.

“The IBA contest is a way for our students to test themselves against students from other universities,” González says. “The competition also gives them an opportunity to hone the skills that make them employable and to better prepare for the workforce. The contest gives exposure to our students and the Department.”

IBA Team Wins Honor in Its First Competition

1st Beate Mocek Prize Awarded

The German Mineralogical Society (DMG) has awarded the first Beate-Mocek-Prize to Donjá Aßbi-chler of the Ludwig Maximilians-University of Mu-nich. The award memorializes Beate Mocek, a KU Research Associate and the wife of Assistant Professor Andreas Möller.

Mocek died in 2010 after a long illness. She was a member of DMG, a long-time mentor of women in the natural sciences and a participant in the Mentoring Pro-gram of the Max Planck Society. Möller and Mocek’s parents created the prize. “We are profoundly thankful to everyone who donated to the fund,” Möller says.

Möller says his late wife would probably be embar-rassed to know that her name was attached to an award. “Beate would not like to have her name out there,” he says, “but she would like the extra opportunity the prize provides for young women scientists. Teaching and mentoring were very important to her.”

Klein Named Geological Legend The Houston Geological Society, the largest lo-cal geological society in the world, has presented its Geological Legends award to George Devries Klein (‘57). The award is for his work in sedimentology and associated contributions to petroleum geology.

A consulting geologist, Klein is president and chief geologist of SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc., in Katy, Texas. He is also Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Among his many accomplishments are discovering the largest gas producing well in the Barber County field in West Virginia, an exploration play concept in the eastern Gulf Coast and a revised stratigraphic play concept in the Southern basin, Trinidad.

Klein earned a geology PhD from Yale Univer-sity. You can view Klein’s acceptance speech by going to www.youtube.com and searching for “George Devries Klein.”

College Honors Geology Alum

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has awarded John Gurche (BA geology ’74, master’s anthropol-ogy ‘79) its highest honor, the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award for 2013.

Gurche is an artist whose recreations of human ancestors and other ancient life have appeared in movies like Jurassic Park, national magazines and top museums. Gurche utilizes his training in paleontology and anthropol-ogy to create models and drawings that are scientifically accurate and highly realistic.

His work has appeared on the covers of National Geographic, Discover and Natural History magazines. It can also be seen at the Smithsonian, the Field Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, among others. His work has been featured in National Geographic documentaries, the Smithsonian and on the BBC. His paint-ings also appeared in 1989 on a series of stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service.


FIELD NOTES

Kathleen Hall, of Lecompton, Kan., has made a leadership gift to establish a new geology professorship at KU. Gene Rankey, associate professor of geology, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Hubert H. and Kathleen M. Hall Professorship in Geology.

Kathleen Hall and her late husband, Hubert “Hub” Hall, both earned bachelor’s degrees from KU in 1949 — Kathleen in education and Hub in geology. The couple married that fall and moved to Madison, where Hub earned a master’s degree and doctorate in geology from the University of Wisconsin.

“I’m happy to see this professorship being estab-lished at KU,” she says. “My husband had a lot of close connections with the University. His parents both graduated from KU, as did his two brothers, and their father was director of the KU Natural History Museum and head of zoology. So, we’ve had a very soft place in our hearts for KU.”

After completing graduate school, Hub joined Standard Oil (now ExxonMobil) in Tulsa, Okla. During his 34 years as a petroleum geologist, the couple lived in various countries as he explored for oil and gas. For the last 20 years with Exxon, he led its exploration in Malaysia, the southeastern U.S., the Middle East, North Africa, Ireland and England. When Hub retired from ExxonMobil in 1986, he and Kathleen decided to retire in Kansas.

Hub served on the Geology Associates Advisory Board for a number of years. In 2007, KU Geology honored him with the G-Hawk Legacy Award. He died in 2010.

Bob Goldstein, KU associate dean of natural sci-ences and mathematics, expresses appreciation for the gift.

“Hub and Kathy have been tremendous friends to the entire University,” Goldstein says. “This professor-ship leaves a legacy to the Department of Geology that will recognize that friendship for decades to come. It will assure that the Department will attract and retain the best faculty members in a teaching and research area that is important to all. I think this is a fitting tribute to Hub’s exceptional career, and to Kathy and Hub’s years of generosity.”

The Halls’ previous gifts for KU have benefited several areas across the University, including the Natu-

Kathleen Hall Establishes Professorship

ral History Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art and the Department of Geology. Also, in 1999, the couple donated 116 acres of land to KU Endowment to cre-ate the Hall Nature Reserve, which is a part of the KU Field Station.

This follows in the family’s footsteps, as in the late 1940s, Hub’s father, E. Raymond Hall, led an effort to secure an area where the University could conduct ecological research and teaching. The 590-acre site chosen for this purpose was already under University control; it was a former farm of Dr. Charles Robinson, first governor of Kansas, who donated it to KU in 1911. This land is also part of the KU Field Station, which has grown to encompass 3,400 acres.

The geology professorship is awarded to a mid-ca-reer faculty member or an incoming professor. Recipi-ents will have a research or teaching focus in sedimen-tary geology or in an area of research complementary to the energy industry.

The gift for the professorship counts toward Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas, the University’s $1.2 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign. Far Above seeks support to educate future leaders, advance medicine, accelerate discovery and drive economic growth to seize the opportunities of the future.

KU Promotes Three Geoscientists

KU has granted Craig Marshall tenure and promoted him to associate professor. KU has also promoted Kan-sas Geological Survey researchers Gaisheng Liu and K. Dave Newell to associate scientist.

Left to right, Luis González, Gene Rankey, Kathleen Hall


FIELD NOTES

KudosKGS awarded master’s student Bevin Bailey, the Wil-liam W. Hambleton Student Research Award. Bailey has developed an approach to processing shallow seismic data to address public safety aspects of a large dam.

Chair Luis A. González has been elected to the SAC-NAS Board of Directors. SACNAS is a society of sci-entists dedicated to fostering the success of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American scientists—from col-lege students to professionals.

Master’s student Hunter Harlow presented his re-search at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit at the Kansas Statehouse in February.

KGS awarded master’s student Carolyn Helm the Frank C. Foley Groundwater Student Travel Award. She is working on innovative techniques to extract data from water-well drillersʼ logs.

KGS gave doctoral student Charity Lander the Nor-man Plummer Outstanding Student Award for her mapping work.

The International Association of GeoChemistry has awarded Associate Professor Gwen Macpherson a Certificate of Recognition to honor her research in weathering and the impacts of climate change on groundwater chemistry and her outreach through so-cial media to students.

Geology senior Jacquelynn Miller was one of only 33 KU students to receive $1,000 Undergraduate Re-search Awards in 2013.

Brian Platt (PhD ‘12) has joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi Department of Geology and Geological Engineering as an assistant professor.

Professor Paul Selden and the University of Manches-ter’s John Nudds have produced the second edition of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems. A bucket list for fossil enthusiasts, the book describes the most significant fossil sites around the world.

The KU Office of Graduate Studies has given doctoral candidate Blair Schneider its Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes service provided by a gradu-ate student to the KU community. Her nomination cited her work in creating the KU Geology Mentor Program.

Associate Professor Mike Taylor has won a KU Leading Light Award for bringing in externally funded grants of $1 million or more during the 2012 fiscal year.

The Kansas Geological Society has named KGS’ Lynn Watney an honorary member. Present and past members are selected for honorary membership based on their distinguished service to the society and the science of geology.

See You There!

Once again KU Geology has a busy schedule of alumni receptions. We will be hosting receptions at GSA in Denver, Colo., on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013; and in Vancouver, BC on Oct. 20, 2014. Our AAPG alumni receptions will take place on Monday, April 7, 2014, in Houston, Texas; and Monday, June 1, 2015, in Denver, Colo. See the program books for details.

Golden Hammer Award

Leawood, Kan., senior Daniel Feigenbaum won this year’s Golden Hammer Award at Field Camp. The award goes to the Geology 561 student who contributes the most to the intellectual development of the group, has the best skills and displays the greatest enthusiasm.

Daniel Feigenbaum and Mike Taylor


Getting It RightNew Geochronologist To Join Faculty

A geochronologist whose work has already helped improve the accuracy of the Earth’s rock clock will join the KU Geology faculty as an assistant professor in August 2014.

“I’m thrilled to be coming to KU,” says Noah McLean, who will arrive after finishing a postdoctoral appointment with the British Geologic Survey’s NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory in Nottingham, U.K.

McLean earned his doctorate in 2012 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working under the guidance of alumnus Sam Bowring (PhD ’85), MIT’s Robert R. Shrock Professor of Geology.

“I’m looking forward to collaborating with the established research groups in tectonics, geomorphol-ogy, paleoclimate, structural geology and paleontol-ogy,” McLean says. “KU offers the ideal setting for my work.”

Among McLean’s most recent accomplishments is refining a common method used to date geological events. In a 2012 paper in Science, McLean and three colleagues from the British survey reported that the 238U/235U ratio of 137.88 used to calculate uranium-lead dates is inaccurate.

Their work showed that many naturally occur-ring uranium-rich minerals actually have an average 238U/235U ratio of 137.818 ± 0.045 and demonstrate significant natural variability. This means a sample that

had been dated at 4.5 billion years old – the age of the Earth – is actually 700,000 years younger.

Much of McLean’s fieldwork has taken place in the North Cascades in the state of Washington.

“While my interests are broad, from tectonics to geochemistry,” McLean says. “I plan to focus a good deal of my geochronological effort on the last 5 million years, a time that has seen enormous environmental and physical change, with implications for modern and future Earth systems.”

In 2004, McLean earned a BS with honors in geo-logical sciences from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, performing a senior research project with Drew Coleman (MS ’ 88, PhD ’91). Besides teaching at MIT, McLean also helped write and teach a middle school and high school outreach program on U-Pb geochronology, which he and colleagues present-ed through the MIT Museum.

McLean already has 16 papers either in print, in press, accepted for publication, or in preparation, and he helped write a field guide on the North Cascades in 2009.

He will be coming to Lawrence with his girlfriend, Allison Hall, an engineer from Connecticut. McLean says he is looking forward to setting up his laboratory, teaching classes and attending basketball games at Al-len Fieldhouse.

Noah McLean

FIELD NOTES


FACULTY UPDATE

Ross BlackAssociate Professor

Last year was a busy year for teaching. I taught several full courses and helped team teach a new class called Geology for Engineers with Diane Kamola and Mike Taylor. With the rapid increase in student enroll-ment in Petroleum Engineering here at KU, there has been a wave of new students needing basic but targeted geological training. I taught the geophysics section of the course. It was interesting. The engineering stu-dents are very linear in their approach to things. The other classes I taught were the introductory Geophysics class, two more advanced classes, Geophysical Data Analysis and Geophysical Modeling, and also History of the Earth and Historical Geology. For the advanced classes, while we now have some excellent software thanks to our ever-vigilant alumni and our friends in industry, we do need to look at upgrading our comput-ing hardware infrastructure in the coming year or two. Of course, this infrastructure would easily dovetail with the geophysical research programs here at KU.

J.F. DevlinProfessor

In 2013 several new opportunities presented them-selves. Past networking efforts and a chance meeting at a session I organized for the National Ground Water Association Summit led to invitations to participate in proposals to develop and apply the groundwater veloc-ity devices that I have been working on over the past few years with my students. Proposals in New Zealand and Denmark were successful, leading to fieldwork in those countries in 2013, including a sabbatical leave in Copenhagen this coming year. The devices are now in use, or planned for use, in four countries (the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Denmark), with pending interest from two more groups in Chile and Belgium. In preparation for the sabbatical, I encouraged all my students to plan on defending before I left. Pete Schillig was the first to go. He defended his PhD with honors in late September 2012, and was subsequently given the Haworth Award. James Lyons completed his work in April 2013, having written a first rate review

Near Laingsburg, South Africa, Associate Professor Tony Walton and consulting geologist and retired Exxon geologist Wilbert Mathews (BS ‘75, MS ‘77) examine a clast from the Dwyka Formation, the basal member of the Karoo Supergroup. Walton was in Africa in June to teach a class at the University of the Western Cape.


of the diffusion literature as a Masters project. The rest of the group has been making steady progress, with Rubina Firdous most likely becoming the next person to defend. With luck, the stable will be empty when I return from Denmark, and the process of rebuilding will begin again.

David FowleAssociate Professor

This was a very interesting year in the Fowle labo-ratory. We had several more graduates. Karla Leslie completed her PhD, and several MS students whom I mentioned last year were getting ready to finish, in fact, did finish. We had one new addition to the lab, Ryan Voegerl, a master’s student working with Jen Roberts and me on microbial dolomite precipitation. On the teaching front, I had the opportunity to teach a new first year seminar. These are small (18 or fewer students per class) courses for freshman that are designed to bring students from across the University into a class that they want to take for pure interest (in my case, on En-ergy Resources) and learn some important skills to help them have a successful University career. It was a very rewarding experience, and I am looking forward to being even more involved this year. Finally, I stepped down as associate chair in the Department and took up a similar mantle in Environmental Studies.

Evan FranseenProfessor and Senior KGS Scientist

A really enjoyable and rewarding part of my past year has been serving as President-Elect, and now as President of the Society for Sedimentary Geology. I’ve traveled quite a bit, representing SEPM at various venues, and had the opportunity to meet and interact with individuals and groups from academia, industry, government and other societies. One highlight of the year was going to Washington, DC, for an American Geological Institute leadership conference and meeting with members of Congress and their staff to promote the geosciences. This coming year looks to be even busier with more trips representing SEPM already on the books.

Other notable activities included co-leading a KU-University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez student field trip to Spain in March 2013, chairing a session at the Geological Society of America meeting in Charlotte, chairing three sessions for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists meeting in Pittsburgh, Penn., and continued work with our carbonates industry consor-

tium, the Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consor-tium.

Robert H. GoldsteinMerrill Haas Distinguished ProfessorAssociate Dean for Natural Sciences and

Mathematics

The past year has been enjoyably varied. Through-out much of the year, I’ve worked with colleagues at KU Endowment, the University administration, Kansas Board of Regents, architectural and planning firms, alumni and corporate sponsors to help us achieve our goals for the new Earth, Energy and Environment complex. In the Dean’s office, there were major ini-tiatives on instituting the KU-Core, phasing in a new shared service center model, and building a master plan for facilities for the sciences. Our group’s research on carbonates has also been fun and productive.

Meanwhile, the KICC had a successful third year, and grew to a dozen companies. More faculty seem to be integrating carbonates into their research as a result, with the number of faculty investigators involved in the KICC rising to 18 this year. Evan Franseen, Gene Rankey and I continue to market KICC actively to new sponsors.

Multiple research projects were also brought to completion, with new products on deepwater carbon-ates, microbial carbonates, reservoir modeling and carbonate diagenesis. Zhaoqi Li came up with a novel model for dolomitization of carbonate platforms that seems to be gaining acceptance. Brad King produced an exciting data set that helped show how hydrothermal fluid flow is distributed in the subsurface, and what im-pact it has had on porosity. Evan and I were able to lead three separate field seminars to Spain this year, one for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, one for KICC companies, and one for a group of KU and University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez students over spring break. I greatly enjoyed the KU-UPRM group, and continue to be grateful that we are able to lead such field trips for our students.

Luis A. GonzálezChair and Professor

This was a good year overall for me, both as De-partment Chair and on the research front. PhD student Alvin Bonilla is nearly finished with his research on Cretaceous carbonates of the Caribbean and has started work with Encana in Denver. Christine Frasca, a Mas-ter’s student co-advised with Diane Kamola, finished her thesis on chemostratigraphy in the Book Cliffs in

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Utah, and Master’s student Paula Richter, co-advised with Bob Goldstein, continues working on dolomitiza-tion in Isla de Mona in Puerto Rico. In the fall, Luis Montalvo Lliteras (a.k.a. Gavi) joined my group to pursue his Master’s. Gavi is working on the Mississip-ian in the subsurface of south central Kansas. Last year, undergraduate student Ted Morehouse got access to ExxonMobil Sego Canyon core (with the help of Mike Blum) and did an initial sampling in Houston. The core was shipped to the Kansas Geological Survey core facilities in the spring, and Ted is working feverishly to generate a high resolution chemostratigraphic record (over 800 isotope analysis!). Ted will be joining my research team as a Master’s student in the fall of 2013.

The W. M. Keck Paleoenvironmental and Environ-mental Stable Isotope Laboratory continues to do well, and lab manager Greg Cane continues to do an excel-lent job in the lab. The lab is extremely busy, although we had some breakdowns that slowed our productivity.

At home, we are finally “empty nesters” as all three kids are in the own places, although they still come back for holidays. Sahudi is in great health and had a trouble free year. After nearly 20 years, she is finally totally off steroids and other meds. Monica continues to work for GiftProfessor.com and babysit for several of the Department faculty. In 2012, we had the pleasure of seeing Raquel perform in July as Adina in the L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) opera by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti in Chautauqua, New York. In October, we traveled to New York to see her sing the role of Piacere in Handel’s oratorio Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, HWV 46a (The Triumph of Time and Truth). In the spring, Raquel was one of the winners of the 2013 Liederkranz Foundation Scholar-ship competition, and had her debut at Carnegie Hall in March. Finally this summer, we returned to Chautau-qua to see Raquel perform as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Daniel finished his second year at KU’s Engineering program and decided to switch his major to computer engineering. He keeps busy and has been working as sushi chef in one of the local restaurants.

Stephen T. HasiotisProfessor

We had a busy year in 2012-2013. Brian Platt, my recently minted PhD student, got a teaching position at Ole Miss. John Counts came back from Encana in Dallas, Texas, to defend his Master’s thesis on the ichnology and paleosols in Lower Permian rocks in core from the Hugoton gas field. He is now studying for a PhD at the Australian School of Petroleum, in Adelaide, South Australia. John also won the Haworth Award for Master’s students. I have also been keeping

busy. My students and I had a total of eight presenta-tions and posters at the Geological Society of Amerca meeting in Charlotte, N.C. I presented an invited paper at the International Petroleum Technical Conference in Beijing, China, in March. Also in March, Gene Rankey, Jennifer Roberts, and I gave multiple presentations at Saudi Aramco in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to build a closer relationship with them and KICC. At AAPG in May in Pittsburgh, Penn., my students and I gave a total of five presentations and posters. This summer fieldwork is being conducted in Queensland, Australia; Crooked Island, Bahamas; and the Four Corners area in the American Southwest. On a very sad note, Snow-flake, our family Alaskan Malamute and Field Camp dog for four-to-five years, had to be put down due to his age. God rest his soul and may his memory be eter-nal. He was a sweet dog and loved going to Field Camp and doing geology with his old man!

Diane KamolaAssociate Scientist

Fall of 2012 started with the biennial Sequence Stratigraphy trip to the Book Cliffs of Utah. We had a full class and a great trip. Students looked at deposi-tional environments, parasequences, sequence bound-aries and incised valleys. The students also visited the field area of graduate student Christine Frasca Cornwell, in the upper part of the Blackhawk Forma-tion. Christine defended her thesis and graduated in December. Spring semester started with a trip to Pata-gonia to start graduate student Michael Waynick on a field project for his Master’s research. Recent graduate Blake Miller was a field assistant. Our research is on the nonmarine to shallow marine fill in the Magallanes Foreland Basin. We took a side trip to Chile to see the deep water deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation. Talk about superb exposures! Later in the spring semester, I took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Southern California to look at deep sea fan deposits. A long-time friend and former co-worker Kirt Campion lead the trip for us. We saw fantastic sedimentary structures, including climbing megaripples -- a first for me. We also looked at numerous channel-fill sand-stones and examined the stratal architecture of multiple fan systems.

Gwen MacphersonAssociate Professor

The Konza Prairie work continues, with progress made by Master’s student Huan Liu in calculating the carbon balance in the prairie water system. Some of


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the carbon is sequestered during aquatic photosynthe-sis in the stream, with carbon isotopes and C/N ratios helping to reveal how much is trapped in organic matter. With help from Kansas Geological Survey As-sistant Scientist Andrea Brookfield and her amazing IR camera, we can actually see where the groundwater is discharging into the stream because of the temperature difference between groundwater and stream water. The groundwater then releases some of its CO2, and Huan and I built a floating CO2 chamber to measure the rate of release.

Besides the Konza work, I continue to investi-gate groundwater in karezes in Afghanistan, with new flow-modeling work, also by R.A. Huan Liu, beginning to reveal the controls on this limited water supply. I presented this work at the KU Environmental Security Conference in April and at GSA in Charlotte, N.C., in November 2012. In addition, Carla Whisner, whose Master’s thesis also addresses this topic, will soon return to KU for a short while to finish her work.

On another front, I spent six months at the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania developing the method to measure lithium isotopes, with great success. I reported preliminary results at GSA and also at AAPG in May 2013, as well as at a couple of seminars, two for academics and one for the public.

Now, from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poem “Wa-ter” (from the Poetry Foundation website, published in Poets of the English Language, Viking Press, 1950): “The water understands/ Civilization well;/ It wets my foot, but prettily,/ It chills my life, but wittily,/ It is not disconcerted,/ It is not broken-hearted:/ Well used, it decketh joy,/ Adorneth, doubleth joy:/ Ill used, it will destroy,/ In perfect time and measure/ With a face of golden pleasure/ Elegantly destroy.”

Craig MarshallAssociate Professor

This year included several publications wrapping up the work on the origin of the carbonaceous material in the Apex chert, which also received international press coverage. This research showed that carbona-ceous materials come from many different sources and have drastic implications in the search for evidence of the earliest life on Earth in other ancient meta-sedimentary sequences. With respect to teaching, I had a busy year teaching mineralogy, optical mineralogy and economic geology. I was excited to teach economic geology again as I re-vamped the course and was able to use more resources for the lab.

Andreas MöllerAssistant Professor

Packing gear for this year’s Field Camp brought memories of the 2012 Field Camp to mark the passing of another year. As I write this, I am looking forward to seeing the Henry Mountains in Utah with Diane Ka-mola. The two weeks in Camp in Colorado last summer were great and are now having a direct impact on future research. My new Master’s student, Tyson Berndt, is joining us for a fresh look at the geochronology and metamorphic petrology of Blue Ridge, which many may recall from their own Field Camp experience.

Other highlights of the last year include travel to the International Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia, as well as fieldwork in the Ulukisla basin in southeastern Turkey, the spectacular central Albanian Mirdita ophiolites, and a special trip to the western desert of Egypt. These new endeavors have so far produced a very interesting detrital zircon dataset for a Master’s thesis, and will continue to bear scientific fruit.

Students in my lab reached different milestones this year. Joe Miller defended his co-supervised Mas-ter’s thesis in great style, and I am looking forward to the publications from this excellent “double-dating” study on the Burdigalian transgression. This was a very successful collaboration with Danny Stockli, who started the project and recruited Joe. For PhD student Jeff Oalmann, the last summer seemed to be spent mostly in airplanes, clocking up miles between the US, a conference in Canada, lab work at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and a conference in Australia. Jeff was recognized for his excellent teaching this spring with an honorable mention in the college-wide GTA award competition, and he sailed smoothly and with honors through his comprehensive exam. Undergradu-ate senior researcher Jessica Savage completed a study on the geochronology and deformation history of dikes and pegmatites in the Central Alps. She presented her research at the American Geophysical Union confer-ence and will move on to grad school at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., this summer.

With Josh Feldman as a part-time lab manager, we have increased our lab productivity and taken on several outside research collaborations that I could not have handled by myself. This summer we are looking forward to a much-needed upgrade of the laser system to secure and enhance our capabilities as a state-of-art laser ablation facility. With this, we will continue to expand our capabilities in high spatial resolution work on several minerals and our sample throughput for provenance analysis.


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Alison Olcott MarshallAssistant Professor

This year was a busy and exciting one. Brendan Anderson finished his Master’s degree this spring, and has now headed off to the Paleontological Research Institute at Cornell University to complete his PhD. However, the lab will not remain quiet for long, as two new Master’s students, both of whom are interested in applying organic geochemistry to oil industry-related problems, will be starting this fall. All of this turnover has meant lots of publications and new projects and field work. To kick off some of those new projects, we went out to collect from several sites in Oklahoma, including a sulfur-rich spring supporting a vibrant microbial community, and two iron and sulfate-rich sites, Glass Mountain and the Great Salt Plain. These latter two sites will serve as unique Mars analogs to test equipment similar to that planned to go on the next Mars rover mission in 2020. The trip was an exciting one, and we narrowly missed the Oklahoma City tor-nado, but our daughter was an excellent field assistant.

Gene RankeyHubert H. and Kathleen M. Hall Professor

This past year has been rather memorable. It ended on a high note, when I was honored by being named the inaugural Hubert H. and Kathleen M. Hall Professor of Geology. As part of this, I had the pleasure of meeting and accompanying Mrs. Hall and some of her family to the Honors Banquet. This highlight capped a year that included research/field work trips to work with great local collaborators in Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Mexico, two visits to Kiribati, and several to the Bahamas.

Fall was rough, however, as I contracted both Hepatitis-A and Dengue Fever during an August trip, and then dislocated my shoulder while diving to make a play during a flag football playoff game in October. Offsetting these physical setbacks, the KICC continues to expand, and my group of grad students continues to do well.

Jennifer Lowery started her work on organic-rich coastal systems in the Yucatan. Michelle Mary con-tinues her interesting work on bioerosion and early cementation in the Pacific. Jason Rush is expanding his work on using Holocene ooid shoals to more accurately predict variability in ancient reservoir systems. Hannah Wasserman just finished her thesis on the sedimentary dynamics of a reef-sand apron system in the equatorial Pacific. Likewise, I have several undergrads working with me: Adrienne Duarte (coastal change in Kiribati), Ashton Sparks (sediment production on reef sand aprons) and Bethany Winkel (ooid micromorphology).

All three presented their results at the SEPM Carbon-ates Research Group at AAPG. Finally, the year ended with Florida-Bahamas field trips with great groups from PBS-SEPM and Cairn Energy.

Jennifer RobertsAssociate Professor

Last year research in my lab was focused primarily on projects aimed at characterizing the Arbuckle Aqui-fer for CO2 storage. Master’s student Aimee Scheffer defended her thesis in August and went to work for Conoco Phillips. Master’s students Breanna Huff and Christa Jackson continue work on the Arbuckle proj-ect and should both finish up this year. PhD student Charity Lander continues her dissertation research on microbial impacts on clay diagenesis and is currently doing an internship at Exxon Mobil.

I’ve welcomed two new Master’s students to the lab. Ryan Voegerl will continue my research on low temperature dolomite formation and has spent the summer cultivating microorganisms in preparation for a battery of experiments. Josh Boling is taking on a project as part of my collaboration with professors in the KU Architecture and Geography departments that will investigate how to use microbial precipitation of calcite to stabilize earthen materials. I am still involved in Arctic research and will be in Svalbard in August to sample permafrost soils. We will be characterizing soil nutrient contents and investigating how soil geochem-istry in these environments influences methanogen and methanotroph communities and their overall contribu-tions to methane flux.

Paul SeldenGulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor

At the start of the year, I was still enjoying research at the Naturkunde Museum in Berlin, as part of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (to be con-tinued next year). Some of the research arising from the collaboration in Berlin has already been published (new Silurian scorpion remains), while the rest is in press (Pennsylvanian arachnid carapaces from various sites in Russia). Several papers were published during the year with James Lamsdell, one of my PhD students, on eurypterids, for example from Wyoming, Turkey and Italy, and a horseshoe crab from China. More work on Cretaceous amber spiders has been published, together with another PhD student, Erin Saupe, this time on strange species from Spain. Other work recently pub-lished has included new fossil spiders from Italy and Australia. My travels this year included the Far East,


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combining the International Congress on Arachnology in Taiwan with a visit to Yunnan, China, to start col-laboration on Cambrian arthropods, and a quick visit to Singapore to look at modern arachnofaunas.

Leigh StearnsAssistant Professor

This year marks the culmination of fieldwork for two of my larger NSF research grants: one in Antarc-tica and one in Greenland. I made two trips to Antarc-tica (October 2012 and February 2013) as part of my project to investigate the flow behavior of Byrd Glacier. In October we deployed several GPS receivers on the glacier trunk; in February we removed GPS receivers from this site and other sites that had been collecting data for nearly three full years. The data are still being processed, but preliminary results are exciting and show short-term response to subglacial water move-ment.

Last September I took a group of colleagues to East Greenland to test some innovative technology at Helheim Glacier. We brought a ground-based radar interferometer (capable of producing interferograms, and hence calculating ice velocity, every minute) and a terrestrial laser scanner (custom built to image 7km over snow/ice). We camped adjacent to Helheim Glacier for five days while these instruments collected remarkable datasets and we listened to icebergs calving and watched some spectacular northern lights.

I’ll be heading back to Greenland in August, both to Helheim Glacier to wrap up our NSF project there, and to Rink Isbrae on the west coast for the start of a new NASA project. Both grants are geared towards understanding ice-ocean interactions at two very dif-ferent glacier-fjord systems. While my Helheim project is ending, the Rink project is new and involves new collaborators and measurement techniques.

While my year was punctuated with fieldwork (nearly three months worth!), the bulk of 2012-2013 was spent welcoming and training new graduate stu-dents and teaching geomorphology and environmental geology. I’m grateful that I have five great graduate students who help me get the work done.

Don SteeplesMcGee Distinguished Professor

I am entering into phased retirement at half time starting in the fall of 2013. I will be serving as Presi-dent of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for the 2013-2014 term.

Mike TaylorAssociate Professor

Last year was busy, mostly with graduating stu-dents. In alphabetical order, Andrew McCallister gradu-ated with a Master’s and is now at Chevron. Richard Styron graduated with a PhD and is now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Michigan. Gabriel Veloza graduated with a Master’s (honors distinction) and is now enrolled in our doctoral program. Gabriel was also the lead author for the October 2012 GSA Today science article we published. Meanwhile, Erica Dalman completed her first year and field season in Colombia along the Llanos basin – the largest onshore oil field in Colombia, which is undergoing active shortening, up to 3 mm/year!

I was on sabbatical in Fall 2012 as a visiting pro-fessor at the University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, investigating active uplift of the Ryukyus Is-lands. Upon my return, I taught a thrust belts course in spring 2013, and we took a field trip to Banff, Alberta, to understand the geometry and kinematics of a classic foreland fold and thrust belt.

As I write this, it’s summer, and I’m teaching Field Camp at Cañon City. We mapped Red Ridge last week, and currently we’re mapping Twin Mountain. We’ve avoided the fires, but thunderstorms, rain and lighten-ing are keeping us on our toes!

Randy StotlerAssistant Professor

Although 2012-13 was marked by severe drought, my second year with KU was significantly more pro-ductive. I welcomed my first group of graduate students who are currently busy researching water resources from Kansas to Algeria.

In March and April, Joe Anderson of the Explora-tion Services Division of the KGS helped Britney Katz collect 60 m of core through vadose zone of the Ogal-lala-High Plains aquifer in northwest Kansas. Through various chemical and physical methods, recharge rates will be determined. Since complete and intact core is rarely obtained from the High Plains aquifer, strati-graphic researchers Jon Smith and Greg Ludvigson at the KGS will also make use of the core in conjunction with an on-going NSF project in southwest Kansas.

Molly Long is working to identify differences in groundwater-surface water interactions in Kansas streams with very different geology. One located near El Dorado is underlain by Pennsylvanian limestone, while the ephemeral Arkansas River near Larned is underlain by the High Plains aquifer. This research has implications to understanding aquifer vulnerability to


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contamination and recharge potential. In another excit-ing research project, Angela Thompson is working to understand the geochemical and microbiological effects of artificial recharge. This is part of a larger project led by Gaisheng Liu at the KGS to lower costs and increase availability of aquifer storage and recovery.

Finally, David Meyer has been diligently working to compile a database of geochemical and hydrogeo-logic information for Algerian aquifers to enhance our understanding of water availability. All of my students have been working hard and earning praise from the faculty and the greater scientific community. Britney and Angela both received grants for their work from GSA.

Like the infamous climate change “hockey stick”, I expect the next year to be even busier than this one. Our research group will add another graduate student. In addition to a continued focus on water resources, particularly in Kansas, I hope that several budding collaborations will build into full-time projects. These include investigations of seasonal water and carbon dioxide cycling in riparian and prairie plant communi-ties, understanding microbialite formation in critical zones, and researching geochemical, geomicrobiologi-cal and geothermal dynamics of perennial springs in the Canadian high Arctic.

As my research group is starting to hit its stride, I have to acknowledge that I could not have reached this point alone. I appreciate all of the support from the Department of Geology staff and faculty in help-ing me transition into my new role at KU. Without their help, I’m sure I’d still be staring at an empty lab, and my course preparation would have certainly taken much longer than it did. Additionally, as evident in the description of my group’s research activities, we have benefited greatly from close collaboration with the KGS.

A final note and a shameless plug: I am serving as the Department’s colloquium coordinator. If you know of someone doing interesting work in industry or aca-demia, please don’t hesitate to contact me, and I will work to arrange a visit.

George Tsoflias Associate Professor

During the past year we continued to make prog-ress on geophysical research and technology develop-ment at KU Geology. Ayrat Sirazhiev completed his Master’s degree on the use of 3D seismic attributes and inversion at the Wellington field, near Wichita, Kan., to study the Mississippian reservoir, map porosity distri-bution and predict reservoir thickness. Ayrat is now a geophysicist for Schlumberger in Houston. Master’s

students Yousef Fadolalkarem and Clyde Redger are continuing the work on seismic characterization of Mississippian and Arbuckle reservoirs in Kansas. Brian Miller defended his PhD in developing new high-reso-lution 3D seismic imaging methods of the ultra-shallow (less than 10 m) subsurface. He is beginning his faculty career this fall at Slippery Rock University in Penn-sylvania. Jose Velez defended his Master’s on seismic characterization of ice sheet anisotropic properties, and he and fellow graduate student Anthony Hoch are pursuing PhDs at KU’s Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) on seismic and radar imaging of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Matt Baker and Chris Perll are advancing the capabilities of radar technology to map fractures and monitor the flow of fluids remotely. This work is help-ing us understand better fluid flow in fractured rock in groundwater aquifers, geothermal systems and hydro-carbon reservoirs. Blair Benson Schneider is continu-ing her research in geophysics/geoarchaeology for her PhD at KU investigating the geophysical response of bone beds in central Kansas. Blair is the recipient of the prestigious KU Self Fellowship.

On the teaching front, my colleague Tony Walton and I offered the first KU course on AAPG’s Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) competition. The team of five stu-dents put forward an exceptional effort and won third place in the regional competition in Oklahoma City. Not bad for a first-year entry to the competition. We are very pleased by the whole experience, and we are look-ing forward to the 2014 competition.

J. Douglas WalkerUnion Pacific Resources Professor

EarthChem continues as part of a much bigger project called IEDA or Integrated Earth Data Appli-cations, which is based at Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. EarthChem pro-grammer Jason Ash is now doing a lot of new work for the IEDA project as well as continuing his efforts for EarthChem. The Geochron database is growing well, and we are getting lots of new content.

We also are continuing our geothermal work. Joe Andrew and I are working with Danny Stockli from the University of Texas-Austin on a project in Dixie Valley, Nevada. The Nevada project is going well and should yield some exciting results.

Meanwhile, my student Willy Rittase has finished, and Tandis Bidgoli should be done this fall. Sam Cole-man continues on this work. I have a new master’s student named Steve Alm, who will be doing geother-mal of the southern Dixie Valley, working with lots of subsurface data.


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Anthony W. WaltonAssociate Professor

I continue to teach many courses, including Geol-ogy 101, Geology 360 (the introductory field geology course for beginning geology majors), Petroleum and Subsurface Geology, Terrigenous Depositional Systems and the joint Geology-Petroleum Engineering reser-voirs and design class. This year for the first time, I worked with George Tsoflias to mentor a talented group of graduate students through an AAPG Imperial Barrel Award project. While the KU team did not win the re-gion, they produced an excellent analysis of oil and gas

prospects in part of the petroleum reserve on the North Slope of Alaska.

I took that experience with me to South Africa where I mentored the students in the professional Master’s of Science program in Petroleum Geology at the University of the Western Cape through similar IBA data sets. While in South Africa, I got to see a little geology, and I enjoyed the company of Wilbert Mat-thews who many alumni of the late 70’s will remember. Meanwhile, I am continuing my research on disparate topics: oil fields in Kansas and alteration of basalt in the Snake River Plain.

With funding from a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences grant, KU Geology has embarked on a com-prehensive revision of six key undergraduate courses. To help with the work, the Department has hired a geoscientist who specializes in science education.

The effort is part of CLAS’ Course Transformation Initiative. “Our undergraduate offerings have always gotten great reviews from students and industry, but we know we can do better,” says Chair Luis A. González. “We are happy to have this opportunity to bring both cutting-edge technology and the newest teaching meth-ods to our core courses.”

Kelsey Bitting, a geoscientist who has taught at Rutgers University and interned with ExxonMobil, ar-rived at KU in August to coordinate the effort. In 2011, she proposed and co-chaired a session on nontraditional learning environments and teaching techniques at the annual GSA conference. Bitting also has presented workshops at Rutgers on teaching science. Her appoint-ment at KU is for three years.

“I’m tremendously excited to be working on this initiative,” Bitting says.

The project is designed to build on KU Geology’s existing success. “My intention is to bring together not only our knowledge of the geosciences but also our developing knowledge of the cognitive behavioral sciences, of education and psychology. We’re gaining a much better understanding of how people learn and how they grapple with complex concepts like those we teach in geology.”

Under the supervision of González, Bitting works with the KU Geology faculty members who normally teach each course. Her duties include developing edu-cational materials and testing tools, enhancing online resources for students, and developing skill-building

activities. Bitting will also partner with KU Geol-ogy faculty to teach and implement the newly revised courses.

The purpose of the revision is to streamline KU Geology’s undergraduate offerings, enhance student learning across all levels, ensure that course contents are current, and to guarantee that the course content and materials provide student with the critical skills and knowledge they need for successful careers in the geosciences.

Among the many innovations under discussion are creating lectures students can view online before they come to class. This will enable students to be ready to engage the minute they walk into the classroom.

The KU Geology faculty have identified six courses for the project: Geology 101 Introduction to Geology; Geology 103 Geology Fundamentals Labo-ratory; Geology 105 History of the Earth; Geology 121 Prehistoric Life: DNA to Dinosaurs; Geology 171 Earthquakes and Natural Disasters; and Geology 302 Oceanography. First up for revision is Geology 101, Introduction to Geology, where Bitting is already work-ing with associate professors Jen Roberts and Tony Walton.

Bitting earned a bachelor’s degree in 2005 from Vanderbilt University and a doctorate in May 2013 from Rutgers. A fluvial geomorphologist, Bitting’s dis-sertation focused on flood frequency and landscape for-mation processes in the Delaware River Valley in New Jersey. She studied the geological impact of everything from climate change to human habitation over the last 21,000 years when the last glacier retreated from the valley.

She is married to Jason Rimmer, a university administrator.

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Assistant Professor Andreas Möller holds up a sample of schist as he orients Geology 560 students to the week’s mapping project.

Professor and Field Camp Director Doug Walker guides Jake Clayton, left, and Reed Waldon on their project.

Left to right, Jessica Shumway works with Adrienne Duarte, while behind them teaching teaching assistants Steve Alm and Jeff Oalmann, and Andreas Möller and student Luke Miller confer.

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Story and Photos by Diane Silver

The temperature had already hit 1040 F with barely a cloud in the sky as 24 KU students charged up a ridge in central Colorado, pushing through scrubby pines and past the ever-present cholla cactus. They weren’t following a path because none could take them where they needed to go as they hiked up and then down steep ridges, mapping the geologic features that KU’s Field Camp faculty had chosen for their class project.

This day marked the beginning of the third and fi-nal week of Geology 560, and the students were getting sweatier and dirtier by the second. Half of them had silver-cased laptops hanging from black straps around their necks. Especially hardened and designed to sur-vive life in the field, the machines enabled students to learn how to use computer software to create geologic maps. During other weeks in Field Camp, students would work by hand on analogue mapping.

On this day, the students had a lot to learn about their computers. Working in teams, they alternated

Dispatches from Cañon CityField Camp Thrives through Heat, a Power Outage and Smoke

between walking with their heads down as they traced the formation they were mapping and huddling around their computers as they debated the correct ways to plot points.

This year Field Camp was marked by extreme heat as students, faculty and teaching assistants worked in temperatures of more than 1000 F. Electricity in camp failed for more than 24 hours. A wildfire started near the Royal Gorge and blanketed Cañon City with smoke for days, but the fire never came within 20 miles of KU’s Field Camp or threatened the students’ work sites. Even with those challenges, however, faculty and students agreed that the 2013 Field Camp was a suc-cess.

“I think it’s been great,” says Assistant Professor Andreas Möller. “We had more technical problems than usual, but I think everybody has gone with the flow and done what’s necessary.”

Senior Jacquelynn Miller says the experience was helpful. “There’s no possible amount of classroom lec-turing that could teach you what we learn out here,” she

As he prepares to head into the field, student David Cunningham reviews the feedback he just received from Doug Walker.

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says. “It’s the application of everything we’ve been learning in our geology classes.”

Since 1922, KU Geology has been running field courses out of its facility about 10 miles northeast of Cañon City. In that time, much has changed.

When KU Geology first taught field courses, ge-ologists could not have conceived of the computers that students would carry so casually during the 2013 Field Camp. In earlier years, KU’s Field Camp also lacked cabins and other comforts, although a neigh-boring rancher cooked meals for the students.

Today Field Camp includes showers, flush toi-lets, a storage shed, eight cabins and a building with a kitchen that doubles as both recreation hall and classroom. Field Camp also has electric power—a necessity when laptop batteries must be frequently recharged and water pumps powered. Students are responsible for bringing their own food and cooking their own meals.

Class schedules have also changed throughout the years. This year Geology 560 students spent

Above and Beyond

Students mention it. Alumni remember it. Profes-sors admit to it, but only after some prodding. The topic is the personal commitment KU Geology faculty members make to their students. This is one such story I happened upon this past summer.

When Professor Doug Walker and I picked up Ty Tenpenny in Topeka to give him a lift to field school, I had the opportunity to meet his parents. I was join-ing Field Camp in mid-session to do a story. Ty was returning after the family emergency. His grandmother had died while he was with Associate Professor Diane Kamola and the rest of the Geology 560 class in Capi-tol Reef National Park in Utah.

When Ty’s parents discovered I was a journalist, they urged me to write about the support Diane gave to their family. On the drive to Cañon City, Ty filled in the details.

First, Diane provided a listening ear, helping Ty cope with his grief. “She gave me a big hug as soon as she found out, and said she was so sorry.” On the class’s only day off during their two weeks in Utah, she made the eight-hour drive to and from the closest airport to make certain Ty could attend the funeral.

When they arrived at the airport in Grand Junc-tion, Colo., Diane stayed to help Ty with the computer

check-in. “I’d never done that before.” Ty says he is thankful for the help. “Diane went

above and beyond her duty as a professor. I can’t say enough about that. She was amazing.”

- Diane Silver

Students leaving Field Camp at the end of 560 raise their hands.

Tyrell Tenpenny leads students out of the field.

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the first two weeks of their class in Utah, learning the basics of mapping before returning to the Cañon City camp to take the final week of the course. Geology 561 students were based in the Cañon City camp during the entire three weeks of their class.

Four KU Geology faculty members—Associate Scientist Diane Kamola, Union Pacific Resources Pro-fessor and Field Camp Director Doug Walker, Assistant Professor Andreas Möller and Associate Professor Mike Taylor—oversaw the field courses. Working in the field with different faculty members helps students, Möller says.

“We show them how we observe things and what we do,” he says. “That’s why it’s important that you have several different people teaching because we all have different personal styles.”

While much has changed, the mission of KU Geol-ogy’s Field Camp remains the same as faculty train the future generation of geologists to observe, describe and interpret. Field Camp also provides other important skills, Walker says.

“One aspect is just learning to map, which is learn-ing to organize rocks in space and to organize data about rocks,” he says.

Geology 560 and 561 also help students use maps, Walker says. “If they’ve never gone out and made a map, they won’t understand maps.”

The courses help students learn to work with data collected by other geologists. “Most of these students

are not going to be field geologists,” Walker says. “In fact, almost nobody is a field geologist anymore, but they’re going to work with data that somebody else has observed—either through a drill hole, a seismic section, radar or in some other way —and if they don’t have some experience of what things should look like or could look like in the field, then they’re not going to do a very good job with that data. The only way you can get that kind of experience is to go into the field.”

Exposures of the Fremont Formation can be clearly seen from Field Camp.

A student walks through Field Camp in late afternoon.

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At the end of a day in the field, students continue working on their mapping projects in the recreation hall. Here Andreas Möller helps Tucker Steen, left, and Andrew Vohs.

Students Tina Redlinger, left, and Alisha Shipley frame Doug Walker and student Xiaoru Chen as they work on the week’s mapping project.

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Students map an outcrop at Blue Ridge just outside of Red Canyon Park. During the two Field Camp courses, students work in both computer and analogue mapping. Geology 560 and 561 are run back-to-back every summer, and most students stay for the full six weeks. Others choose to leave after finishing the three weeks of 560. Senior Tina Redlinger was happy to be heading home at the end of 560. “It’s a long time to be away from your family, your house, your job and your dog.”


A well-worn path in Field Camp leads down the hill to the recreation hall and two of the cabins.

Looking past The Bone House cabin -- note the white bones fastened to the front of the cabin – the storage shed with its red roof is visible.

The teaching assistants’ cabin, complete with a porch for lounging, and the faculty cabins sit on top of the hill overlooking the student accommodations, recreation hall and showers.

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Dean Keiswetter (MS ’92, PhD ‘95)

For Indus-trial Haworth Award Recipient Dean Keiswetter, KU Geol-ogy opened the door to another way of thinking.

“I have very fond memories of KU,” Keiswetter says. “I’m very glad I went. I met lots of nice peo-ple. I don’t use some of the course mate-rials anymore, but learning the scientific method, and the ability to think about things technically have influenced everything I’ve done since.”

Today Keiswetter is a Chief Scientist at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). The Fortune 500 Corporation’s 38,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intel-ligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. government agencies and selected commercial markets.

Working out of the company’s Cary, NC, office, Keiswetter oversees multiple technical programs related to the classification of unexploded ordnance. “I try to make sure we have the funding we need,” he says. “I write proposals, develop business strategies, and make presentations to government agencies. I then oversee the resulting technical work and put the final reports together.”

Winning the Haworth was a surprise. “I am hum-bled and honored. I certainly didn’t expect it, and I very much appreciate it.”

McGee Distinguished Professor Don Steeples and Associate Professor Ross Black played key roles in his success, Keiswetter says. Steeples helped him understand the scientific method, while Black provided timely and practical help. “I took a course from Ross on proposal writing, and ended up writing the proposal

2013 Haworth Awards Honor Two Alumni

Established in 1949 to recognize outstanding KU geology alumni, the Haworth Award is given by the faculty of the Department of Geology. The award is named for Erasmus Haworth (1855 – 1932), the first chair of the Department and the first Kansas state geologist. This year’s winners exemplify the best G-Hawkers have to offer the world.

Jack Farmer (MS ’71)

On July 20, 1969, Academic Haworth Award Recipient Jack Farmer sat with other KU students in the Recreation Hall at Field Camp outside of Cañon City, Colo., and peered intently at a TV set.

“We watched for hours on end, staring at this little black and white set with rabbit ears sticking up, try-ing to get reception so we could watch Neil Armstrong step out onto the moon,” Farmer recalls. “It took a long time, but eventually he came down the ladder (from the moon lander) and said those historic words. We saw it all right there at Field Camp.”

Today Farmer’s Field Camp training has combined with his passion for planetary science to make him one of the leaders in the search for life on other planets. Through his work on the unmanned missions to Mars, he has pioneered the field of exopaleontology, which searches for evidence of ancient life on other planets by seeking ancient biosignatures preserved in rocks or ices.

Farmer began by analyzing data from Viking, the first Mars mission, which landed in 1976. He helped select the landing site for Pathfinder, which arrived at Mars in 1997. He worked on the mission that landed the Spirit and Opportunity rovers on Mars in 2004. Today he is once again seeking evidence of ancient life as a science team member for Chemistry and Mineral-ogy (CheMin) with Curiosity, the car-sized rover that landed on Mars in August 2012.

“We haven’t discovered life yet, but we’ve dis-covered environments where life could be sustained,” Farmer says. “I’m very excited about it. Promoting

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the idea of looking for fossil biosignatures on Mars is beginning to pay off.”

Farmer says his KU courses, and particularly the mentoring of his adviser Bert Rowell, helped prepare him for his success. “But the thing that capped it off and that I’ve carried all of my life was Field Camp. It was organized so beautifully that you couldn’t help but learn something. To me that’s where geology comes alive, in the field. I also had the good fortune to come back the following year and TA the course for Bert. Field Camp molded and shaped the rest of my career.”

Farmer is a professor of geological sciences at Arizona State University in Tempe. Before joining aca-demia, he worked as a research scientist and earlier as a senior post-doctoral fellow at the Exobiology Branch of the NASA Ames Research Center. Farmer also taught at UCLA and worked as a senior petroleum geologist for Exxon in California. He earned a BA from Califor-nia State University in Chico in 1969 and a PhD from the University of California in Davis in 1978.

Farmer and his wife, Maria, have been married for 24 years. They have one daughter, age 11.

that funded my PhD research.”Other faculty members who made a difference

included KGS Senior Scientist Rick Miller and former faculty member Don Sprowl. Keiswetter also fondly remembers Emeritus Distinguished Professor Paul Enos. “I admired his hard working approach and his discipline.”

The KU Geology faculty made a huge difference in his life. “Even today I still think back to the experi-ences I had with them,” Keiswetter says. “They’re really good people. They’re sincere people, and they’re not presumptuous. They don’t look down on you, and I really appreciate that.”

Keiswetter earned a BS in geology from Fort Hays State University in 1989 and an MBA from the Univer-sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2001.

He and his wife, Carol, have four children, boys aged 11 and 8 and twin girls aged 4. Carol earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education with Early Childhood emphasis from Fort Hays State University in 1988. She taught elementary school, and then left to be a full-time mother after their children were born. Keiswetter chuckles, “We have a very busy house.”

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A team led by Associate Professor Jen Roberts has synthesized dolomite at a low temperature without the aid of microorganisms – a feat that scientists have been trying to accomplish for almost a century.

Announced in a paper published in August in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), this work will eventually provide researchers with more accurate tools for understanding climate change and give geologists better methods for finding new sources of petroleum, Roberts says. This research also represents a major step forward in solving The Dolomite Problem.

The team was able to grow dolomite at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) in their laboratory in an abiotic environment. While organic material was present, it was not actively reproducing. The team was able to show that a certain kind of coating on organic matter, known as a carboxylated surface, acts as a catalyst to create dolomite.

Previously, researchers had only been able to produce dolomite at temperatures of 80 to 250 degrees Celsius (176 to 482 degrees Fahrenheit), or had used live microorganisms to help synthesize the mineral.

A carbonate mineral commonly found in sedimentary rock, dolomite plays key roles in both

KU Geologists Make Dolomite Breakthroughthe economy and science. Dolomite forms major hydrocarbon reservoir rocks. The mineral also serves as a proxy enabling scientists to interpret the chemistry of ancient fluids and to estimate temperatures on Earth millions of years ago.

“Understanding where and how dolomite forms allows petroleum geologists to create predictive models so they can better locate hydrocarbon reservoirs,” Roberts says. “Better understanding the formation of dolomite also enables us to calibrate models that will help us figure out climate change in the future.”

While dolomite formed abundantly in the geologic past, it seldom is discovered to be forming today, and then only at temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). The KU research has helped solve one of the major aspects of The Dolomite Problem by unlocking the mechanism that allows dolomite to form in open spaces in rocks at a low temperature. Future phases of the research will focus on other parts of this problem.

The team includes Paul Kenward, a former doctoral student who is now at the University of British Columbia; Associate Professor David Fowle; Professor and Associate Dean Robert Goldstein; Professor and Chair Luis González; and David Moore, of KU’s Microscopy and Analytical Imaging Laboratory.

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KGS Helps Solve MysteryMolten aluminum and careful study have helped

a team based at the Kansas Geological Survey solve a 120-year-old mystery and better understand the hydrol-ogy of the High Plains Aquifer.

The effort is a collaboration between Brian Platt (PhD ‘12), a KGS postdoctoral researcher at the time; Jon Smith (PhD ’07), KGS assistant scientist; Greg Ludvigson, KGS senior scientist; and Joseph Thom-asson, curator emeritus at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University. They began their research in 2008, published their first paper in 2011 in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclima-tology, Palaeoecology. They continue to publish and present their work today.

Since the 1890s, odd shapes within outcrops of the Ogallala Formation have baffled paleontologists. The pancake-like shapes were even dubbed “devil cakes” (or Daemonelix cakes) in an 1897 publication. Re-searchers theorized that the shapes were the remains of prehistoric plants or fossilized piles of dung. Combined with vertical tubes, these shapes also created a distinct weathering pattern that are now known as honeycomb calcretes.

Thomasson examined the fossils in the field and wondered if they might actually be fossilized ant nests. To confirm his theory, Thomasson turned to the KGS. They found the best-preserved examples of these fos-sils at a ridge called the “Devil’s Backbone” in Scott County, Kan.

With the assistance of the Fort Hays Art and De-sign Department, the team employed a technique that uses molten aluminum to create casts of modern ant nests. The molten metal is poured into the nest, solidi-fies and the resulting shape is dug out of the ground. The aluminum works well because it flows easily and is sturdy enough to hold the shape of even the longest, narrowest sections of the structures.

The KGS team created an aluminum cast of one nest of western harvester ants in western Kansas and then compared that cast to the fossils. Without the cast, the researchers couldn’t visualize what a fossilized nest might look like.

“Nobody had ever studied the nest architecture of the western harvester ant in the wild, although many other species have been studied,” Platt says. “Different species of ants make nests that differ in their form and architectural elements.”

Using this method, the team determined that many of the structures making up the honeycomb calcretes are nests built by ants 10 million to 15 million years ago.

“A lot of them are pretty well exposed though erosion,” Platt said of the fossilized structures. “We brushed them off and dug at them a little deeper. But it’s impossible to extract an entire nest because they are so delicate. The vertical tubes are only up to a centime-ter in diameter. But we were able to break off some of the pieces, collect them and compare them with modern insect nests.”

The aluminum casts showed that the modern nests have pancake-shaped chambers connected by vertical tubes.

“When you look at the fossil structures in Scott County—with the individual pancake pieces and overall structure—they look exactly like the modern ant nests,” Platt says. “We were pretty excited when we saw them and realized we were the first to recognize that these are fossil ant nests.”

The fossilized nests, however, represent more than the resolution of an old mystery. Their study provides a window into the evolution of the Ogallala Formation.

“Studies of modern ant nests have shown that a nest will grow in size over time,” Platt says. “If more modern studies can link the approximate age of a nest to its size, then we could get an idea of how long a fos-sil ant nest and its colony were active. That is useful information because fossil ant nests could tell us how long the landscape was stable. In other words, how much time passed without any geological events sub-stantial enough to disturb or bury the nest.”

Since that breakthrough, the group has continued its work on the structures. Platt and Smith, for example, have conducted an inventory of the trace fossils (rem-nants of burrows) present in the Ogallala. When they complete their work, they will have a clearer picture of the ancient soil ecosystems in the area.

The two are particularly interested in calcretes. “Jon and I think that the burrows in the ancient soils provided void spaces for carbonate precipitation,” Platt says. “A better understanding of the distribution of trace fossils and their control on calcrete formation in the Ogallala is useful because calcretes have very low permeability and may influence hydrology of the High Plains aquifer.”

- Brendan Lynch contributed

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Donating to KU Geology is all about respect, says Burnett Oil Co. President William Pollard (MS ‘70).

“I have great respect for the professors and the educational program at KU,” Bill says. “They were the foundation that allowed me to succeed in my career, and that’s why I feel it’s important to donate. I’m giv-ing back to the University that helped me get started.”

Bill says his KU education in stratigraphy, carbon-ate rocks and regional geological settings played a key role in his success in the oil industry. During his KU career, Bill says he came to admire many of his profes-sors, including Pat Bickford (“a tremendous teaching style”), Randy van Schmus (“his research interest and his vast ability in the field”), and Curt Teichert (“his great expertise and editing skills.”). Other favorites include Louis Dellwig and Bill Merrill.

Bill and his wife, Kathryn, of Fort Worth, Texas, are longtime supporters of the Department. Among other funds, they have donated to the Anthony Walton Geology Equipment Fund and recently gave to help pay for the construction of the Earth, Energy and Environ-ment complex.

“The Geology Department has outgrown its exist-ing facilities,” Bill says. “They are inadequate to attract and retain great faculty and students. To maintain the highest level of teaching and research, state-of-the-art facilities are critical.”

After growing up in central Florida, Bill became in-terested in the oil and gas industry while studying geol-ogy, first at Florida State University where he received his bachelor’s degree in geology and later at KU. He also worked as a summer intern for Pan American Pe-troleum Corp. in New Orleans and Forth Worth.

Bill began his career in the industry as a geolo-gist with Amoco in the Permian Basin in southeast New Mexico and later worked in the East Texas Basin as Project Geologist. With Amoco, he also served as Exploration Liaison for the Houston Region in Chicago and then became District Geologist in Houston. He was Amoco’s Regional Geologist in New Orleans and West-ern Division Exploration Manager in Denver.

During the 1980’s, Bill left the majors to become an independent. After the crash of 1986 and with a desire to learn more about the emerging technologies of horizontal drilling and onshore 3-D seismic, Bill joined Union Pacific Resources Co. in Forth Worth as Manag-er of Exploration in 1989. He remained with UPR until 1998 when he joined Burnett Oil as President. Burnett is active in the Permian Basin, the Appalachian Basin, the Anadarko Basin, the Fort Worth Basin, the South Florida Basin and other areas.

William and Kathryn Pollard Give Back to KU Geology

Bill has served on the Committee of Resource Evaluation for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He is the past chair and current member of KU’s Geology Associates Advisory Board and has received KU’s Erasmus Haworth Distinguished Alumni Award. He also served on the Geological Technical Advisory Board of the Gas Research Institute. He is a member of the Fort Worth Wildcatters, Texas Indepen-dent Producers and Royalty Owners, the Independent Petroleum Association of America and is a Trustee of the AAPG and a board member of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Tarrant Area Food Bank and the Fort Worth Petroleum Club. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Fort Worth Museum of Sci-ence and History. Bill enjoys hunting, fishing, travel and most of all, his family. He is actively involved as a member of All Saint’s Episcopal Church.

Kathryn (BA elementary education ‘64) is a suc-cessful businesswoman who also serves her community as a volunteer. After teaching elementary school, she created a marketing business, which she later sold. Kathryn has also helped lead many community organi-zations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the local Salvation Army, the Tarrant Area Food Bank and their church Vestry.

Bill and Kathryn have two children: Dr. Jennifer Pollard Ruiz, who most recently served as a physician at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Columbia, and Rebecca Pollard Pierik, who recently received her second mas-ter’s degree in psychology. Both have private practices in Austin. Bill and Kathryn are the proud grandparents of Nicolas, Lily and Lucas.

Kathryn and William Pollard

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KU Geology students gather around Marathon Senior Technical Consultant Kirt Campion at the Torrey Pines State Natural near La Jolla, Calif. The cliffs are part of a 4-mile-long canyon system where the outcrops tower as high as 328 feet—the equivalent of a 32-story building. The cliff deposits date from the Eocene (56 million to nearly 34 million years ago).


KU Geology students gather around Marathon Senior Technical Consultant Kirt Campion at the Torrey Pines State Natural near La Jolla, Calif. The cliffs are part of a 4-mile-long canyon system where the outcrops tower as high as 328 feet—the equivalent of a 32-story building. The cliff deposits date from the Eocene (56 million to nearly 34 million years ago).

A Pacific Encounter

Read a textbook. Listen to a lecture. Analyze a rock sample with every piece of equipment in every lab at KU, and you will still not understand submarine fans.

Can you really understand the enormous size of these depositional settings if you haven’t stood at the base of one and felt how small you are in comparison? Can you understand the complexity of the rock record of the powerful and sometimes-destructive sediment flows that form these deposits if you have never gotten down on your hands and knees, and put your fingertip on an individual turbidite? (A turbidite is a sedimentary deposit from a rapid, sediment-laden density current.)

For five days in April, 12 KU Geology students touched and crawled over some of the best submarine fan exposures in the United States. Under the leader-ship of Associate Scientist Diane Kamola and Mara-thon Senior Technical Consultant Kirt Campion, the group of students toured outcrops near San Clemente, San Diego and La Jolla in California.

Campion has studied these formations for decades and co-authored several field guides on them. When Kamola learned that Campion—her former supervisor at Exxon and a long time friend—was willing to lead a trip, she quickly recruited students. Kamola hopes to lead other students back to explore the same outcrops in the future.

Submarine fans (also known as deep sea fans) are important for many reasons. Fans preserved in the rock record help geologists study turbidity flows. These flows can occur on the surface or deep underwater. They can be so powerful they can destroy anything in their path, or even kill as one did in 1979 in France. Underwater flows can break pipelines and snap under-water cables. Sea fans can also form significant hydro-carbon reservoirs.

The California outcrops are one of the two best locations in the United States where geologists can closely examine sea fans. The outcrops examined in California were once under 3,500 feet of water in the Pacific Ocean, but tectonic activity, specifically con-traction, forced them to the surface.

Junior Cassie Absher says standing in front of the huge deposits while listening to Campion helped her better understand his lecture. Master’s student Dustin Stolz adds, “Seeing a sea fan in the field really does make a difference.”

Story and photos by Diane Silver


Sixty miles north of San Diego, San Clemente is a town of about 64,000 that is best known for having served as Richard Nixon’s western White House dur-ing the early 1970s. San Clemente was also the first stop of the trip. Campion, Kamola and the students walked down a steep hill to the San Clemente State Beach to get to the base of outcrops of the Capistrano Formation.

In their 2005 guide to the site, Campion, Anthony R. Sprague and Morgan D. Sullivan explain that the Capistrano Formation is late Miocene (about 11.6 mil-lion to 5.3 million years ago) to Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) in age. The formation provides “excellent exposures of deep-water channels that were deposited in a slope setting,” Campion, Sprague and Sullivan note in their field guide, Architecture and Lithofacies of the Capistrano Formation.

At this location, the Capistrano Formation is ex-posed in cliffs that range in height from 10 feet to 50 feet. They stretch from the state beach to close to the San Clemente City Pier. At the state beach, the forma-tion stretches 1,700 feet.

The cliffs consist of “granule and pebble conglom-erate, fine-to-medium grained sandstone and thin in-terbeds of very fine-grained sandstone and mudstone,” Campion, Sprague and Sullivan note in their guide.

Kirt Campion points to features in the Capistrano Formation at the San Clemente State Beach.

Left, Kirt Campion asked students to identify the formation’s fea-tures on a panorama photo in his field guide. From the foreground to the back, Jake Fastner, Juli Emry and other students complete the assignment. Student received copies of each of the three field guides covering the stops they made on their trip.


With a population of 1.3 million, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States. Its deep-water harbor and Navy bases host the majority of ships in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, among many other distinctions. However, San Diego is also the site of excellent expo-sures of the Point Loma Formation and the overlying Carbrillo Formation.

Found in city parks and at the edges of cliff-top neighborhoods, these formations gave students an op-portunity to study features of weakly confined deep-water channels like bed continuity, bed thickness, grain size, the distribution of turbidite lithofacies and turbi-dite stacking.

As a submarine fan is traced from slope to basin floor, it can include several different kinds of channel complexes. These include confined channels, which form a wide “U” shape, and weakly confined channels, which spread out so much that they hardly look like channels at all. No distinct channel geometry can be observed in weakly confined channels. These weakly confined systems form as a sediment flow transitions

from a deeper, quicker flowing channel system. This usually happens as the slope flattens out.

Among other stops, the group hiked through Sunset Cliffs Park, a spectacular setting in a thickly residen-tial neighborhood. Campion, Kamola and the students climbed down onto outcrops in and around the park. They also explored outcrops near the La Jolla City Park.

Left to right, Jessica Shumway, Wes Gapp, Cassie Absher and Michelle Mary examine the Point Loma Formation. Thin-bedded mudstone can be seen at the base. Muddy debrite and thin-to-medium bedded sandstone and mudstone is visible at top.

About 20 feet away from the outcrop pictured above and closer to the ocean, Kirt Campion points out a turbidite to Juli Emry, left, and Hannah Wasserman.



Facing page, top, Cassie Absher turns to listen to Kirt Campion as waves crash against one of the outcrops at Sunset Cliffs Park.

Facing page, bottom, the group poses at Sunset Cliffs. Left to right, 1st Row: Cassie Absher, Hannah Wasserman, Julie Emry. 2nd Row: Samantha Dold (green sweatshirt), Wes Gapp, Adrienne Duarte, Michelle Mary (sunglasses), Brian Sitek, Kirt Campion. 3rd Row: Jeff Ross, Diane Kamola, Jacob Fastner. Back Row: Dustin Stolz and Jessica Shumway.

This page, right, students gather around as Diane Kamola answers questions. This page, bottom, Hannah Wasserman is dwarfed by one of the massive outcrops at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve near La Jolla.


The Earth, Energy and Environment Center (E3) started as a dream of the Geology Associates Advisory Board well over a decade ago. Inspired to create new spaces for KU’s accomplished geoscience faculty and students and for new and future talents, they envi-sioned a modest addition to Lindley Hall.

But over the years as the board members debated details among themselves and discussed options with the KU geoscience faculty and industry executives, their vision clarified and the project grew. In some ways the delay was frustrating—many wanted to see a new facility constructed as soon as possible. But Board Member Scott Ritchie believes KU Geology would have undershot.

“If we had done it then, we would have done it all wrong,” Ritchie says. “Now we have a whole new view of what we can do, and we can make a real dif-ference.”

Today’s much more ambitious project grew out of changes in the Department of Geology and in industry that make the work of KU geoscientists more relevant than ever before. This landmark facility also will be the lynchpin of KU’s new university-wide strategic initiative, Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World.

At the corner of Naismith Drive and Jayhawk Boulevard, this newest version of E3 will attach to Lindley Hall and be built over the existing parking lot.

On the ThresholdEarth, Energy and Environment Center To Propel KU Geosciences

Among the new center’s many state-of-the-art labo-ratories will be facilities capable of pressure, volume and temperature experimentation at reservoir condi-tions; 3D imaging of fluid flow in samples and cores; a unique experimental system for live imaging experi-ments; advanced technology in subsurface evaluation of fractured reservoirs; new facilities to store and lay out core and other state-of-the-art research facilities for the Department, KGS and the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project.

A covered outdoor laboratory and field research staging areas will provide sheltered spaces for laying out equipment and class demonstrations. Other innova-tions include enhanced technology transfer facilities, a state-of-the-art auditorium with 3D monitors and projections and augmented reality along with a Presen-tation/Visualization Room, and an Analytical Project Lab. The new facility will also include UV scopes, petrographic scopes, confocal scopes, new imaging analysis software, enhanced lab support and a new biogeochemical suite.

Fundraising for the new complex is moving for-ward swiftly. KU Geology is only $8 million short of the $28 million goal. None of this would have been possible without KU Geology’s dedicated alumni, which is why we asked Board members who have already donated for the project to talk about their gifts. Here is a small selection of their answers.

An architect’s drawing imagines one possible look for the Earth, Energy and Environment Center. Drawing by Gould Evans.


Dave McBride (MS ’74, PhD ’77)

Why did you give? The short answer is to keep KU Geology strong and its facilities, research programs and student offerings up to date, state of the art and relevant. The Department has a long and storied history, but much has changed in our understanding of the Earth and Earth’s processes since “Daddy” Erasmus Haworth or even Ray Moore. Every-one who has benefited from the KU experience needs to step up to the plate and help make this happen.

What difference do you hope this project will make? It will help to keep the Department strong, modern and relevant. It will facilitate making the best geosci-ence education possible available to students. It will demonstrate the KU commitment to the science and toward turning out quality graduates for industry and academia.

What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU? I want to maintain its stature as a major center for geo-science education and research and a prime place for prospective employers to find quality graduates to hire.

Marty Dubois(MS ‘80)

Why did you give? My wife, Twyla, and I gave for a number of reasons, but one that comes to mind first is that I, like many other alumni, was the beneficiary of scholarships from endowed funds and they were extremely helpful. Our giving is, in some ways, a repayment that may help today’s and tomorrow’s students. What difference do you hope this project will make?There are probably as many answers to this question as there are people that might be asked. For me I am very enthused about having a state-of-the art core prepa-ration and layout facility on campus in the Geology Department. Having this facility will likely result in increased energy industry support, that in turn supports more students in energy-related research projects.

What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU?That all students and faculty have adequate facilities and space in close proximity for an optimal teaching and research experience. The Earth, Energy and Envi-ronment Center will be a giant stride forward in getting us there!

We would love to break ground next year. With $8 million left to raise, we need your help. Contact Nancy Jack-son at KU Endowment to make a donation and turn this dream into a reality. [email protected], (785) 832-7357

Jim Funk(PhD ‘77)

Why did you give? I was truly blessed by my experiences at KU. I met many smart life-long friends and caring professors who taught me the importance of multi-disciplinary learning and research. Most importantly for me, my KU Geology experience resulted in me getting a job at Shell. What difference do you hope this project will make?It’s all about building a significant new academic platform for both growing and creating positive collaboration between geology, engineering and other involved sciences at KU. This will put Kansas on the leading edge of the development of our country’s energy resources What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU?That the Earth, Energy and Environment Center helps KU Geology become recognized as one of the top geology programs in the US, and that we are able to attract and retain high quality faculty and students.


Joel Alberts (BS ’80)

Why did you give? Out of honor and respect for those who gave before us.

What difference do you hope this project will make?Increase awareness of the diversity of natu-ral resources in our world.

What’s your biggest dream for KU?That KU Geology will continue to be recognized as a front-runner in science and technology.

Steve Dixon(BS ’80)

Why did you give? Old Lindley Hall, as beautiful as it is and with the history it possesses, has become inadequate to serve the needs of the College. The University has accommodated by providing additional facilities for the Department, but it is not a long-term solution, especially where its faculty and staff are concerned. The Department has been trying to raise funds for a major capital project for many years. The time has come to build a state-of-art facility that can provide multidiscipline research and training.

What difference do you hope this project will make?The University has great foundational strength in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Engineering School. This new project provides the platform to combine the strengths of the University with the real world needs of industry to solve some of society’s greatest problems. KU can become a leader in research and training required to make our planet sustainable while producing the next generation of educators, innovators and produc-ers.

What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU? My biggest dream is to make this project a reality. This new building will become a cornerstone of the campus and source of pride for the University. Geology will be at the heart of this new collaboration and innovation. The Department will be able to do more research and train more students.

Craig Slawson(BS ‘80)

Why did you give? Because we felt we can aid the future of energy de-velopment as well as honor our father (by giving in his name) and support the institutions of engineering and geology that helped us be better custodians of our resources.

What difference do you hope this project will make? Advanced research, education and knowledge transfer can help solve our energy needs.

What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU? Promoting these Rock Stars for what they are. Jump and Shout!

A preliminary sketch shows the Chesapeake Auditorium. Drawing by Gould Evans.


Eric Vogl(MS ’80)

Why did you give?I gave because I felt I had an obligation not only to the University, but also to KU Geology for pro-viding me the education, interpersonal skills and reputation that afforded me the opportunity for a job interview. Throughout my career, I used these skills on nearly a daily basis. I am grateful to have degreed at KU.

What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU?That we will be the premier geology department in the United States.

Chris Holien(MS ’82)

What difference will this project make? KU Geology has historically been a strength for the University. One of the reasons is the Department’s abil-ity to adapt through time, as demonstrated by updating its curriculum, addressing faculty diversity, purchasing new equipment, modifying the field camp course and other accomplishments. The E3 project will provide a modern, adaptive teaching and research environ-ment. It will facilitate collaboration between University departments, government agencies and industry. This project will help maintain the Department’s position of strength for future decades.

What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU?I hope KU continues to provide a high quality edu-cational environment resulting in graduates with imagination, creativity and passion for geoscience. The Earth, Energy and Environment project will be a key component in a positive chain of events, attracting and retaining high quality faculty, increasing the number of research projects and funding, recruiting top-notch students, and producing successful graduates who take pride in and support their university.

William Fisher(MA ’58, PhD ’61)

Why did you give? It is a simple matter of paying back for the training I received. What difference do you hope this project will make?It will provide sorely needed space for a growing Department and a splendid environment in which students will work. What’s your biggest dream for Geology at KU?Geology at KU has a long and storied history of training and graduating some of the top leaders in the geologic science and profession. Its faculty has made major contributions to the science, historically and still in stratigra-phy, sedimentology and paleontology and now expanding into many other fields. The enhancement of the Depart-ment through the Earth, Energy and Environment project, I am sure will help the Department to keep and enlarge its substantial historical standing.

This view shows an early idea for the interior. By Gould Evans.


Oil Production in Kansas, 2012

High Plains Aquifer Regions in Kansas


Tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars: These are the economic benefits KU geoscientists help bring to Kansas. At first glance such a thing might seem impossible. How can a bunch of folks in an academic ivory tower possibly help Kansas industries like agriculture and oil and gas? After all, geoscientists do not drill the wells or plant and harvest the crops that bring jobs, family income and tax revenues to the Sunflower State. This prosperity depends on the labor of the thousands of Kansans who work in these industries, but here is one key fact: Those people could not succeed without the dedication and skill of KU geoscientists.

The Department of Geology and Kansas Geological Survey collect the data and provide the interpretation of that information that enables Kansas’ farmers to properly manage the water resources that make it possible for them to grow crops. The Department, KGS, The Tertiary Oil Recovery Program and the Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonate Consortium study the subsurface, create and test new methods of producing oil, and generate the data that help oil and gas operators make multi-million-dollar decisions on where to drill, what to avoid and how to recover fossil fuels.

“We’re greasing the wheels for oil and gas companies to be successful in Kansas,” says Evan Franseen, pro-fessor of geology and a senior scientific fellow at the KGS.

Bob Goldstein, an associate dean and the Merrill Haas Distinguished Professor, adds: “If we were not re-searching aquifers in Kansas, then water could become such a scarce commodity in places that rely on the High Plains Aquifer that it would fundamentally change the economy in the state.”

Make no mistake, agriculture and oil and gas are huge industries that touch the lives of almost every one of the state’s nearly 2.9 million people.

In 2011 alone, the most recent year for which there are figures, agriculture generated $15.5 billion in revenue in Kansas. More than 65,000 farms dot the Kansas landscape, and every county in the state boasts of its agricul-tural achievements. Kansas ranks first in wheat and sorghum production in the United States, among many other agricultural achievements.

In oil and gas, Kansas ranks 9th out of the 31 U.S. states that produce fossil fuels. The cumulative value of the state’s oil production hit $3.7 billion in 2012 as the state produced 43.7 million barrels of oil. Nearly 66,000 Kansans work directly in the oil and gas industry, and 92 of the state’s 105 counties produce oil or gas or both. The Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association reports that the industry has generated $2.7 billion in income for Kansas’ families. Over the last 12 years, the industry paid an average of $939 million annually in state and local taxes.

If hopes for fossil fuel production in the Mississippian limestone play in Kansas become reality, quarterly income in the state could grow more than $1 billion over the next nine years, KU’s Center for Applied Economics reports. In 2012 farmers in the Mississippian boom region along the Oklahoma border collected checks for more than $1,000 per acre for mineral rights to land that a year earlier was only worth $25 an acre.

Kansans would face a multitude of problems if geologists suddenly disappeared. Without the help of the sci-entists who have studied the subsurface for decades, fossil fuel production in Kansas might eventually decline and the economy would suffer, says K. David Newell, an associate scientist at KGS.

“Prices would start to rise because production would start to drop,” he says. “No new oil fields would be dis-covered and nobody would have any idea of how to best utilize the existing resources we have.”

Without KU geoscientists, farmers would face even more dire consequences. The High Plains Aquifer, which includes the more famous Ogallala Aquifer, is already running low in some Kansas counties. Without the data geoscientists produce, farmers, ranchers and policymakers would struggle to make the decisions that will de-termine the future of this all-important resource. Irrigating crops in central and western Kansas could become increasingly difficult, or prohibitively expensive.

More than 150 KU geoscientists, researchers, technicians and support staff conduct the research, produce the studies and provide the data that agricultural producers and oil and gas operators need. Approximately 100 gradu-ate students assist them. Here is a look at just some of the work they do.

Dollars and Good SenseHow KU Geoscientists Grow the Kansas Economy


Providing the Data

Turn on the tap in western Kansas, draw a glass of water, take a drink and you will most likely taste the High Plains Aquifer. Stick your hand under a stream of water from one of the massive irrigation rigs farmers use in central and western Kansas, and you will feel the High Plains’ lifeblood. The most important water source for the state, the High Plains supplies 70 per-cent of the water Kansans use every day.

Extending beneath parts of eight Great Plains states, including about 30,500 square miles in Kansas, the High Plains Aquifer is a regional system composed of several smaller aquifers. The most well known component is the Ogallala, which stretches under the western half of Kansas and into parts of seven other states. Although the Ogallala is huge, only about 10 to 25 percent of its volume is made up of the kind of porosity – the space between grains of sand and gravel that stores water – that can yield extractable water.

Once thought to be inexhaustible, the Ogallala has been used for irrigation since the late 1800’s. At first, the use of groundwater for irrigation was limited. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, however, technological innova-tions like center-pivot irrigation systems spurred an increase in large-scale pumping and even changed the kinds of crops Kansas’ farmers could grow.

Center-pivot systems consist of large sprinklers that roll across the land on wheels, allowing farmers to irrigate uneven terrain. These systems have enabled farmers to cultivate water-hungry crops like corn. That enabled the creation of huge feedlots and meat pack-ing plants in western Kansas. All these advances led to an economic boom. Irrigation is so important to the

region that one 2011 study estimated that it adds about $188 million every year to the economy of southwest-ern Kansas.

At the same time, all of these advances have strained the state’s water resources. These days irriga-tion systems are so efficient they can pump 800 or more gallons of water out of an aquifer every 60 seconds.

“Well over 90 percent of the groundwater in Kan-sas is removed and used for irrigation,” says Jim Butler, senior scientist and geohydrology section chief at KGS.

“It’s a vast amount of groundwater that is used for irrigation.”

How long can the aquifer sustain that pace? No one knows, but the KGS and Geology Department are working hard to find out.

“What I’ve been trying to do is to quantify how much water is in the ground, how much groundwater is leaving and how quickly it’s being replenished,” said Randy Stotler, an assistant professor of geology. “Basi-cally, I’m trying to figure out how much is there for people to use.”

Determining the health and future of key compo-nents of the High Plains Aquifer like the Ogallala is far from easy. The aquifer’s thickness and composition varies from place to place, which means its ability to store and yield water varies. Even the recharge rate varies.

The recharge rate is the rate at which an aquifer is replenished with water. The rate depends on precipita-tion, plant life and a variety of other factors. In dry western Kansas, recharge can occur infrequently. The long-term average recharge in that region is less than a single inch of water a year. In wetter central Kansas,

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the recharge rate can be as much as 4 to 6 inches a year. KU geoscientists have collected data showing that

the all-important Ogallala is already in trouble in some counties. Since farmers began pulling water out of the aquifer for irrigation, the saturated thickness of the Ogallala has declined more than 60 percent in some western Kansas counties. KU geoscientists have also identified locations in west-central Kansas where the aquifer has already been effectively exhausted.

New research is identifying even more problems. For decades, water levels in the High Plains aquifer have been measured once a year throughout central and western Kansas. In 2013 about 1,400 wells were measured.

“We go in January because farmers are not pump-ing then,” Butler says, “so water levels will have had a chance to recover a bit.”

These once-a-year measurements enabled geosci-entists to get a sense of the overall health of the aquifer, but they did not allow researchers to measure what happens during a growing season. Theoretically, an aquifer’s saturated level could be high in winter, but still fall so low during a growing season that irrigation pumps would be unable to reach water. For all practical purposes, the aquifer would be unusable.

To get a better feel for what happens during the growing season, KU geoscientists are now monitoring water levels continuously in a series of wells across western Kansas. The KGS has already installed con-tinuous water-level sensors in nine wells, three in each one of the three groundwater-management districts in western Kansas. They are also developing new ap-proaches to interpreting the data. The results of this work have been startling.

In a paper published March 2013 in the journal Groundwater, Butler, Stotler, KGS Senior Scientific Fellow Don Whittemore and KGS Senior Research As-sistant Ed Reboulet report that these new sensors have identified a location in Haskell County where water levels are dropping dangerously low.

This contrasts sharply with the annual measure-ments that showed the aquifer’s saturated thickness at this location to be a healthy 150 feet, Butler says. However, the continuous sensors show that when farm-ers turn on their irrigation pumps, the water level drops by 125 to 130 feet. In the hottest, driest months of the year – peak irrigation season – the water level drops even more.

“Looking at the annual water-level measurements,” Butler says, “farmers could say, ‘We’ve got another 20 years before we have to deal with this.’”

In reality, farmers may not even have five years. If irrigation practices remain unchanged, the water level in the aquifer could drop out of reach of their irrigation pumps before the end of the decade, KU geoscientists

report in their 2013 paper. Sitting in front of his computer in his office at the

KGS complex on west campus, Butler clicks on an icon to enlarge a map of western and central Kansas. The map is marked with blue, green and yellow splotches.

“Based on the annual water-level measurements, it looks like a lot of these guys are sitting in tall cotton,” Butler says, pointing to Stevens and Seward coun-ties. These two counties in far western Kansas border Haskell County. Most of Stevens and Seward are cov-ered in dark blue, which indicates that the thickness of the water-saturated part of the aquifer is estimated to be more than 300 feet.

“However, you also need to consider the aquifer dynamics,” Butler says. “When they turn on the pumps, you need to look at the change in the water level. These 300-feet thicknesses are great, but that’s assuming these 300 feet are all good quality sediments. They may not be. You want sand and gravel and pebbles, which readily yield water to a well. You might have silt and clays.”

Although predicting the future of the aquifer is not easy, KU geoscientists are making progress. Butler says he expects to have more answers in the next year or two. Key to puzzling out the aquifer’s prognosis is installing more continuous sensors, and KU geoscien-tists are in the process of putting sensors into wells in Stevens and Seward counties and other places along the Oklahoma border.

“That will enable us to get a better feel for what’s going on there,” Butler says.

Geochemistry is also helping KU monitor the health of the aquifer. Stotler uses a variety of geo-chemical techniques to determine the age of the water now being pumped out of the aquifer. Age is a key data point because if the water coming out of the aquifer is thousands of years old, then the aquifer is not being recharged. “And, we’re using too much water,” Stotler says.

Stotler uses one of three different techniques to measure the water’s age, depending on how old he believes it to be. Just like a paleontologist uses Carbon 14 to date the age of a fossil, Stotler uses the isotope to determine the age of the water. Stotler also measures the amount of Tritium, which entered the atmosphere from nuclear bomb tests in the Fifties and Sixties.

“Modern water that has precipitated onto the land surface and then moved down into the aquifer since the Fifties and Sixties has trace amounts of this,” Stotler says.

Stotler also determines the water’s age by measur-ing the chlorofluorocarbons in it. CFCs were first heav-ily regulated and then banned because of the damage they cause to the Earth’s ozone layer. “We can measure CFC concentrations in the groundwater and relate that


back to the atmospheric concentrations at the time they recharged,” Stotler says.

Despite all the work KU geoscientists do on the aquifer, there is one thing they don’t do: Geoscientists do not make decisions about water management. Their job is to provide the data that farmers, ranchers and policymakers use to decide what to do.

“One of the Kansas Geological Survey’s core mis-sions is to provide a sound scientific foundation for decision making throughout the state,” Butler says.

Stotler says the data they collect is vital for farm-ers. “If they know they’re going to run out of water in the next four to 10 years, they can start planning now. They can ask themselves: What are we going to do? Are we going to use all the water on corn to the very last day, or are we going to start switching over to an-other crop that uses less water so we can make it last?”

Butler says the farmers of western and central Kansas are not only smart business executives, but many are also keen stewards of the land. They want to preserve it for their children and grandchildren.

“It won’t be easy, but I’m confident they will rise to the challenge and figure out a path forward,” he says. “There is no question farmers will be looking to us for reliable information to help in that effort.”

Charting the CourseOil and gas production have long been a part of

the Kansas economy. The first oil well was drilled in Kansas in Miami County in 1860. The first gas well was drilled in Montgomery County in 1873. Operators have been producing fossil fuels in Kansas for so long that the state’s role in the industry had been in decline until recently. Much of the easily accessible oil that had formed about 350 million years ago in shallow sea deposits had already been extracted. However, with the help of new technologies and a boost from rising oil prices, fossil fuel production has entered a period that some see as a new boom.

“Consistently higher oil prices since 2000 – when the price was $25 per barrel compared to $84 now – have sustained the increase in the state’s drilling activ-ity,” says Lynn Watney, KGS senior scientific fellow.

Innovation in horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing (called frac’ing within the industry and known popularly as fracking) has been the driv-ing force behind an even more recent uptick in activity focusing on Mississippian-age oil-bearing rocks that are about 5,000 feet below the surface in southern and western Kansas. Drilling in the producing zone of the

Mississippian limestone play started in Oklahoma and progressed into southern Kansas in the middle of 2010.

“By the end of 2012, the 162 recent horizontal wells were generating 5.9 percent of monthly oil and gas production in Kansas,” says the KGS’ Newell. “The other 94.1 percent is produced from 49,275 oil wells and 24,625 gas wells across the state.”

The impact of the new Mississippian play is easy to see by looking at the three counties where production from the Mississippian has been centered: Oil pro-duction increased in Barber County by 18 percent, in Harper County by 72 percent, and in Comanche County by 71 percent between 2011 and 2012.

“It’s horizontal drilling and multistage fracking that are really opening up tremendous opportunities,” Goldstein says. “A lot of the rock that we never thought of as reservoirs before are now seen as reservoirs. For example, there’s a Devonian unit called the Wood-ford that is widespread across Kansas that we always thought of as source rock, but not as a reservoir. That is one of the new opportunities. The Mississippian is another example.”

KU geoscientists are playing a significant role because finding oil is never easy.

“There are hundreds of thousands of acres (in Kan-sas) that have been leased over the last few years under the category of the Mississippian lime play,” Watney says. “If you’re an operator, you have basic geologic data, but you don’t know specifically how a particular lease or an area on that lease will perform. The play is different ages, different lithologies and different types of reservoir energy in different places. The devil is in the details.”

Just because the Mississippian lime has produced some good results, doesn’t mean that every well is going to be a success. “Not all of those wells produce in the same manner,” Watney says. “We have marginal wells. We have very good wells.”

KU geoscientists provide the data and guidance oil operators need to make decisions that can mean the difference between success and failure. “There are different types of Mississippian rocks that are present,” Watney says. “They are not all the same pore systems.”

The decisions operators face can seem endless: Should they collect more geologic data? If so, what kinds and where should the tests be run? What kind of rock will drillers encounter, and what kind of drill bit should they use? Will the use of fracking release the oil or destroy the play?

“One size doesn’t fit all,” Watney says and adds that fracking may not work in many places in Kansas because the rocks are different than they are in states


where fracking has proven to be successful. “You fracture it, and it doesn’t come out as a nice, clean frac. It’s softer rock, and big frac jobs can break down the reservoir. Fracking may not be the best technology to apply. Some operators in Kansas don’t even frac at all.”

Out of thousands of feet of the subsurface, opera-tors also have to find the pay zone. This is the sweet spot where the rock has the porosity and the oil satura-tion to produce. In the Mississippian, the thickness of the pay zone fluctuates between 500 feet and tens of feet. Without the help of geoscientists, operators cannot know where to drill.

“It’s the geoscientists that tell the drill bit where to go when you’re drilling a horizontal well,” Goldstein says.

KU geoscientists are particularly valuable because of their years of experience in the state. Watney has been puzzling out the mysteries of the Kansas subsur-face for 37 years. He has been studying the Mississip-pian limestone formation since the 1980s.

“A new oil company hire assigned to work in Kansas on the Mississippian play is going to have to go back to the literature and have to visit with people to understand what they’re seeing in the seismic data and in their crazy well logs with what appears to be anoma-lous behavior,” Watney says. “The new hire is going to wonder why does the data look like that?”

Professor Evan Franseen has also been studying the Mississippian for decades. “A number of us here have been on this Mississippian work for several decades, and it didn’t garner much attention,” he says. “Did we make a difference then? I don’t know, but we’re cer-tainly making a difference now.”

Studying the subsurface is inherently difficult because it is impossible to see the whole. Franseen says the difficulties geologists face are the same as those that confront a group of blind men examining an el-ephant. One touches the elephant’s trunk and imagines that the creature is a snake. Another touches its leg, and envisions an elephant as a tree.

“They’re getting bits and pieces of information, but they’re not able to put the whole picture together,” Franseen says. “Over the years, we’ve been able to study a lot of different parts so we can have a better understanding of the whole elephant.”

New geologists can succeed, but their success might only come after lots of time and money are spent.

“Either you have abundant resources and can throw a team in and wait a couple of years to start understand-ing the system, or you can realize that it just takes time to be able to study the different areas and important facets of a system,” Franseen says. “That’s what we provide to companies. They come to us, and we can catch them up to speed on 20 years worth of work.”

Because of the high costs of drilling, the work of KU geoscientists is particularly important for the small independent operators that make up the bulk of the oil companies in Kansas. Drilling a traditional vertical oil well can cost about $300,000. A horizontal well may cost as much as $3 million.

“The smaller a company is the less financial latitude they have,” Newell says. “They have to get a return on their money a lot quicker than for example, a Shell Oil would. These companies have to step into a play like this with a lot of caution, or else you may end

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up with a lot of broken companies.”For example, some horizontal wells do not turn out

to be the moneymakers they first appear to be, he says. Some wells produce a thousand barrels a month at peak production, and a year later only produce 200 barrels a month.

“There are decisions, tough decisions, that an operator has to make,” Newell says. “The Geological Survey can be a resource to help them make the best ones.”

KU geoscientists work with operators in a variety of ways, including holding meetings with them on the KU campus or the company’s headquarters, presenting research at scientific meetings, holding webinars, field-ing phone calls and interacting with sponsor companies through the Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonate Con-sortium.

“We meet with anybody who wants information,” Franseen says of the KGS, Department of Geology and Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonate Consortium person-nel. “Some of the companies like Shell, Apache and others, have requested a full day or two of meetings. I think Shell came up with something like 10 people for their first meeting on the Mississippian.”

KGS, the Department and TORP provide their services free of charge. The new Carbonate Consortium is also giving companies an opportunity to be more closely involved with KU geoscientists by sponsoring their research. Member companies pay $45,000 annu-ally to join the consortium. Current members include Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips, BHP Billiton, Pio-neer Natural Resources, Repsol YPF, Devon, Chevron, SandRidge Energy, Statoil, Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and Shell.

Franseen, Goldstein and Gene Rankey, associate professor of geology, lead the consortium. Co-principal investigators include seven KU Geology faculty mem-bers, two researchers from the TORP and three from KGS. The public has access to the consortium-funded research through peer-reviewed journals and presenta-tions at scientific meetings.

“If there is research solely being funded through the consortium, then what we do is we promise that we will give the results of that research to the consortium members first, prior to public release,” Franseen says. “They absolutely understand, however, that we pub-lish.”

Perhaps the most important service KU geoscien-tists provide to the oil and gas industry is objectivity.

“We’re trying to get a better handle on how those wells may produce,” Newell says in talking about the Mississippian play. “There’s been a lot of hype associ-ated with that play, and I’m not sure it’s justified. Some wells have been nice, but a lot of wells have not been

very nice. Somebody has to look at the data with a little bit of objectivity. With some of the analyses we’re doing, we can help the industry better understand the potential of the play.”

Goldstein adds: “We’re all scientists. We care about the truth. That is our training, and it’s what we teach our students. We always ask: What are the rocks say-ing?”

On the Cutting EdgeDetergents and cancer-fighting treatments are not

things people usually associate with fossil fuel pro-duction, but KU’s Tertiary Oil Recovery Program has employed both in its ongoing effort to enable operators to extract oil and gas from fields thought to be depleted.

TORP exists because of one fact: Once the initial stage of oil recovery is completed, a reservoir still retains two-thirds of its resources. TORP’s mission is to help the oil industry prosper by researching and developing technologies that can extract that remaining oil and gas. TORP also provides in-person and online training for operators and enables students to partici-pate in research.

“We’re on the cutting edge of developing the new technologies that will be able to recover more and more oil and gas out of Kansas reservoirs,” says Jenn-Tai Liang, director of TORP.

As every geologist knows, oil and gas reservoirs are more like bits of rocky Swiss cheese than the under-ground lakes of petroleum the uninitiated imagine. Fossil fuels lodge in holes in the rock called pores and must be forced out. When a reservoir is first drilled, naturally occurring gas and water push the oil out of the rock. In the second phase of production, operators have to inject water under pressure to force out the oil. This produces an additional 10 to 20 percent. Eventu-ally, however, this procedure becomes too costly even though about half of the oil remains underground. Na-tionally, unrecovered oil amounts to 300 billion barrels with 10 billion of those barrels sitting in reservoirs in Kansas. New technologies propel tertiary oil produc-tion, the third and final stage in the life of an oil well.

TORP’s 20 researchers and staff members are engaged in a variety of projects to discover and develop these new technologies. In one demonstration project, for example, TORP is employing surfactants – com-pounds that lower the surface tension between a liquid and a solid or a gas, or lower the interfacial tension between two dissimilar liquids such as water and oil. Laundry detergent is a surfactant. Just as laundry de-tergent reduces the tension between cloth and dirt and


allows you to wash the muck out of your shirt, other surfactants enable operators to reduce the surface ten-sion between oil and rock.

Associate Professor Jen Roberts is one of several geoscientists from the Department of Geology who are working with TORP on the surfactant project. Microor-ganisms like those Roberts studies can play an impor-tant role in oil production – either by helping (produc-ing surfactants naturally) or hurting (growing so much biomass that they clog up the pathways that allow oil to flow).

“While Jenn-Tai is engineering ways to stimulate or shut down different processes, what we are trying to do is understand what is going on naturally,” Roberts says. “Can we characterize the microbial community and understand why some wells are producing more than others?”

Among other results, Roberts and her students have discovered that flourishing microorganisms are creating biomass that clog up wells where surfactants are being applied. “Even though they biocide the wells every three weeks, we’re still getting clogging,” Roberts says.

Other geoscientists from the Department and KGS have also worked on many other TORP projects, in-cluding one that injects carbon dioxide into oil reser-voirs to increase production.

Perhaps one of the most interesting and surprising of TORP’s projects is its effort to produce oil by using technology KU Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professor Cory Berkland developed to treat cancer.

To treat patients, Berkland uses polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles (PECs), which get their “nano” name from their tiny size. The PEC particles deliver toxic chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells without also delivering them to a patient’s organs. They do this by timing the release of the drugs.

To increase oil production, TORP is using the same type of nanoparticles to time release the chemicals that push oil out of a diminished reservoir. By delaying the

release of the chemicals, operators can deliver them to a target deep inside the reservoir.

“We are the only ones in the world doing this,” Liang says.

TORP’s work is particularly important to Kan-sas’ many small independents. “The success of these demonstration projects will allow Kansas’ independent producers to use this technology in other reservoirs,” Liang says. “That will certainly result in a significant increase in oil production in the state of Kansas.”

TORP’s training resources are also important for independent operators. “We provide over 150 hours of (educational) content annually,” says Jeremy Viscomi, director of technology transfer for TORP. “This is con-tent these small companies normally wouldn’t be able to afford.”

TORP seeks to bring its sessions to the operators, providing four training sessions a year in Wichita in the heart of the oil patch. TORP also provides a newslet-ter and offers operators online access to videos of each event. The typical event costs $500 for two days of training. The online version of the same event is only $300. TORP also provides digital program manuals, other materials and allows students to access their train-ings at a reduced cost.

“My job is to provide access to technology and best practices for independent oil and gas operators in Kan-sas,” Viscomi says. “The technology is coming out of TORP’S labs, out of the KGS, and the Department of Geology. Part of my role is to make sure that the folks out in the field have access to that information.”

The typical company that takes advantage of TORP’s trainings is so small that it only has 10 to 30 employees. Today TORP supports the industry by transferring the new technologies it has developed to operators through the center’s many trainings, Liang says. But TORP also helps secure the future of the industry through research and development.

“R and D is the engine,” Liang says.

Jenn-Tai Liang Research Associate Ying-Ying Lin


Creating New IndustriesIf Kansans hadn’t drilled that first oil well

before the Civil War, the 21st century economy of the Sunflower State might be far different. Today the pioneering work of KU geoscientists may well create the Kansas industries of the future.

KU geoscientists, for example, have studied the state’s geothermal resources as a possible future energy source. KU researchers have also been involved with research that could eventu-ally lead to a new industry that stores excess carbon dioxide.

With the help of $23 million in federal grants and in collaboration with Kansas State University, BEREXCO, Inc., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories and Sandia Technology, KU geoscientists have been examining the safety and efficacy of storing CO2 deep underground in south-central Kansas.

The KGS’ Watney and Jason Rush, a senior re-search associate, are leading the project, which is testing the Arbuckle Group as a storage site for CO2 emitted during industrial activities. The project is also testing the efficacy of injecting CO2 into oil wells to help with oil recovery in the overlying Mississippian oil reservoir. Once KGS obtains a permit from the En-vironmental Protection agency, carbon dioxide will be transported from the Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation ethanol plant near Colwich, Kan, to injection wells in the Wellington oil field in Sumner County.

An estimated 40,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted from the plant will be compressed and injected more than 5,000 feet underground into the lower por-tion of the Arbuckle aquifer and another 30,000 metric tons will be injected into the Mississippian. Although the Arbuckle contains water, it is too saline for human consumption.

Watney says the new drilling, coring, seismic stud-ies and well testing they have conducted for the project is already helping them better understand the Missis-sippi Lime play. This work has also provided students with new opportunities for research and samples for a carbonate petrophysics class Watney and John Doveton, a senior scientific fellow at KGS, taught in Spring 2013.

KGS staff and Geology Department faculty mem-bers like Goldstein, Franseen and associate professors David Fowle, Mike Taylor, Ross Black, George Tsoflias and Roberts have contributed to the project. Roberts,

for example, has used geomicrobiological techniques to resolve concerns about the tightness of the seal in the Arbuckle. That seal must keep the injected CO2 from leaking out. Geoscientists became worried when they compared data from different sources, including one data set from two holes they had bored in the Arbuckle.

“All the remote data suggested that there was a low permeability zone through the middle of the Arbuckle,” Roberts says. “It’s important to understand how connected the pore space in the aquifer is in order to predict how much storage is available for CO2, and how well it will be contained.”

To resolve the problem, Roberts and her student Aimee Scheffer tested microbes living above and below that zone. Different organisms inhabited each place, showing that there are separate environments on each side of the seal and indicating that the zone divides the aquifer. “The analysis showed unequivo-cally that we had two separate reservoirs, an upper reservoir and a lower reservoir.” Roberts says.

The freedom of KU geoscientists to pursue new projects is invaluable to industry.

“A lot of the liberty we have at the Kansas Geolog-ical Survey is that we can study geology in areas where the technology is not quite there yet,” Newell says. “In industry, people are looking for immediate payback, immediate recoupment of their investment, but we have a little bit of liberty to look forward and investigate the possibility that something will lead to economic return in the future.”

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Training the FutureKU geoscientists provide the data farmers, ranch-

ers and policymakers need to steward the state’s water resources. Geoscientists chart the course for oil and gas operators who need to know where and how to drill. Geoscientists conduct the research that is creat-ing the new technologies and industries that will power Kansas’ economy in the future. But none of that can bring jobs to the state if Kansans lack the education to do them.

Education remains the key to success for individu-als and families. An educated workforce also enables corporations and the economy to thrive. The oil and gas industry, for example, is struggling with an aging workforce. Severe shortages of trained geoscientists are projected to occur in a decade, Goldstein says.

“Some companies are experiencing it now,” he says.

Few universities prepare students in structural geol-ogy, stratigraphy and sedimentology—the fields that are the most important to the oil and gas industry. KU has a major role to play in filling the gap.

“There is going to be a huge demand for our gradu-ates as we go forward,” Goldstein says. “If we don’t produce those students, then that will contribute to a tremendous shortfall in the nation, and certainly would contribute to a tremendous shortfall in the industry in the state of Kansas. The oil and gas industry in Kansas is aging in a very significant way.”

KU geoscience students can get a wide range of ex-perience, working with the Geology Department, KGS, TORP and the carbonate consortium. For example, at any given time about 25 students are directly involved in research for the consortium, Franseen says. These students attend meetings with company representatives and present research to them.

“One of the things we’re noted for and that we take pride in is that we put the emphasis on students,” Franseen says. “The companies recognize that and have applauded us for doing that. Some of them are here because it gives them access to great students. What we do is throw the students front and center and emphasize them in the meetings. We’ve had one or two of them hired, at least in part, due to interactions they had dur-ing a Consortium meeting.“

The Consortium provides money for students to do research, get software and run analyses. It pays for students to attend scientific meetings. The Consortium also helps KU draw great students, Rankey says.

“I always tell students that we have 12 companies, and you basically have a free interview with them,” Rankey says. “You can meet people informally, you can have dinners with them. That’s a huge recruiting tool.”

KU plays an important role as a training ground for the industry, Franseen says. “We produce really good students,” he says. “They go to companies and tangibly help them make a difference.”

- Diane Silver with contributions from KGS

Gene Rankey and student Hannah Wasserman

Training to be a geologist takes students from the classroom to the field. Here students examine the sediment on a sandbar near Sapelo Island, Georgia, during a KU Geology field trip.


A NOTE FROM THE CHAIR

I’m amazed that another year has zipped by, and I am writing my fifth letter as the Chair of the Geology Associates Advisory Board. This year I am very pleased to report that the Department is quickly moving forward with fundraising for the new Earth, Energy and Environment Center. In addition, I am pleased to report that current and former members of the Geology Associates Advisory Board have already given more than $1.5 million for the new building. We’ve set ourselves the goal of raising a total of at least $2 million. We’re not there yet, but I am confident that every member of the Advisory Board will make a contribution, and we will exceed our goal. Because of our fundraising efforts, The Geology Associates will receive the naming rights for the Department of Geology office suite and for the main lobby of the building, which is adjacent to the Chesapeake Auditorium. This lobby will be an “edu-lobby” with displays and exhibits that will tell the story of energy and the environment to the many students who will pass through it every year.

If you have not yet made a contribution for the Earth, Energy, and Environment Complex please consider doing so now. I’d love to have this transformational building project fully funded by the end of 2013.

This past year the Geology Associates Board again met in fall and spring. We combined our fall meeting with the KU Career Geoscience Symposium and the G-Hawk Symposium where students presented posters to faculty and members of the Advisory Board. We had a great time learning about the students’ work. The spring meeting coincided with the annual awards banquet. It is always fun to attend the banquet and witness the breadth and depth of the accomplishments of geoscience students at KU.

We also continue to grow the Advisory Board, and this year welcomed eight new members: Anita Csoma, Steve Hoffine, Dick Koepnick, Sandra Perry, Anne Sheehan, Chris Spies, Susan Stover and Julie WestHoff. We said farewell to Board members Mary Engleman, Stuart Grossman, Jerry Hodgen, Bill Holland, Mike Seeber and Marvin Woody. Thank you so much for your service. We will miss you!

The Geology Associates Board also finished revising its bylaws and procedures this year. We made several changes that we think will make it easier for those of us who love KU Geology to better serve the geosciences at the University. For example, we created three classes of membership. Regular members will be appointed for terms up to five years. KU Geology faculty members, administration or students who are recommended by the Department Chair will serve as ex-officio members. The Board will also include honorary life members, who will be selected for their outstanding service to the Department or Advisory Board.

We also determined that the officers of the Board will be a Chair and two Vice-Chairs. The Vice Chairs will be the Chairs of the Academic-Industry Liaison Committee and the Alumni Relations Committee. One of the Vice-Chairs will act as the Chair-Elect. These officers will serve three-year terms and may be reelected to additional terms. The Board also will have a Nominating Committee to identify potential new members and candidates for the officer posts.

As I said when I closed my letter last year, this is an exceptional time to be involved with KU Geology. The transformation of the Department is already underway, and it will only pick up speed once the new Earth, Energy and Environment Center is built. Working together we can make anything happen.

- Jim Funk

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Geology Associates Advisory Board 2013-2014Previous ChairsMerrill W. Haas: 1971-1989Hubert H. Hall: 1990-1994William L. Adams: 1995-1999William D. Pollard: 2000-2004Scott D. Adams: 2005-2008

Chair of the Advisory BoardJames M. Funk, Independent Geologist, James M. Funk

& Associates

Chair, Department of GeologyLuis A. González, Professor

Current Advisory Board MembersJoel Alberts, Sr. Exploration Geologist, Alpine, Inc.Edward A. Beaumont, Independent GeologistRoss A. Black, Associate Professor, University of KansasSteve Blanke, G&G Manager, Eastern US New Ventures,

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.Raul F. Brito, Brito Oil Company, Inc.Jason Cansler, Acquisition & Divestitures, Wells Fargo

SecuritiesGeorge Coyle, Manager, Investment Technology

Ventures, ConocoPhillips CompanyAnita Csoma, Director, Reservoir Quality Prediction,

ConocoPhillips. Peter Dillett, Vice President, Oil and Gas Acquisitions &

Divestitures, Wells Fargo SecuritiesSteven C. Dixon, Executive Vice President – Operations

& COO, Chesapeake Energy CorporationMarty Dubois, Improved Hydrocarbon Recovery, LLCGonzalo Enciso, Oil & Gas ConsultantWilliam L. Fisher, Professor and Barrow Chair,

University of Texas at AustinJames M. Funk, Independent Geologist, James M. Funk

& AssociatesNathan Geier, Geophysicist, Cimarex EnergyErik Hiemstra, Geoscience Team Lead, Marathon Oil

Company

Stephen R. Hoffine, Associate Geologist/Dept. Manager, Industrial Services Group

C. W. Holien, Sr. Geological Specialist, ConocoPhillips Petroleum Co.

Dan Kennedy, Geological Manager, Devon Energy Corporation

John Klein, Exploration Manager, Hawkwood Energy, LLC

Richard B. Koepnick, Koepnick Geological Consulting, Inc.

Jonathan P. Lange, Strategy Development Advisor, Chevron Corporate Business Development

Kenneth Lister, Project Manager, SCS EngineersRobert M. Mason, Regional Exploration Manager,

Meridian Oil CompanySandra L. Perry, Perry Remote SensingWilliam D. Pollard, President, Burnett Oil CompanyBradford E. Prather, Geological Advisor, Shell

International Exploration and Production Inc.A. Scott Ritchie, Chairman, Ritchie Exploration, Inc.Dale Schlinsog, President, Koch Exploration Company,

LLCAnne Sheehan, University of ColoradoCraig Slawson, Vice President for Exploration, Slawson

Exploration Company, Inc.Jim Snyder, President, Snyder ExplorationChristopher Spies, Unconventional Exploration Team

Lead, Apache CorporationGeorge Stanley, Professor, University of MontanaAndrea Steinle, Geologic Advisor, Noble EnergySusan Stover, Kansas Water OfficeEric G. Vogl, Retired, ExxonMobil Development

CompanyRon Wallace, Geologist, Dept. of Natural Resources,

Environmental Protection DivisionJulie WestHoff, Senior Project Manager, Kennedy/Jenks

ConsultantsRobert Williams, Pathway Petroleum, LLC

At the 2012 research symposium, student Hunter Harlow and Board Member Raul Brito review Harlow’s work.

Student Bethany Winkel and Board Member George Coyle discuss Winkel’s research.


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Donors to the Geology Associates ProgramContributions from June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013

The Department extends its appreciation to all G-Hawks for their generous support.

A. Scott & Carol L. Ritchie FundA. Scott & Carol L. Richie

A. Scott & Carol Ritchie Hydrogeology Fund

Burns & McDonnell FoundationEdwin D. LindgrenCarl D. & Margery McElweeLiz McVayA. Scott & Carol L. Ritchie

Alec Waggoner Memorial Scholarship in Geology

Keith E. & Kimberly R. BeisnerRobert G. & Mary Ann ElliottRobert M. & Penny Stebor MasonJames B. Ritter

Alice Mitchell Jackson Award for Graduate Student Support in Geology

Roscoe G. Jackson II

Angino Geochemistry ScholarshipErnest E. & Margaret L. AnginoMatthew E. Wilson

Anthony Walton Geology Equipment Fund

ExxonMobil FoundationWilliam D. & Kathryn Wohlford PollardDouglas H. Rofheart

Chesapeake Energy Faculty Research Support

Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Chesapeake Energy Graduate Research Assistant Scholarship

Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Collinson Opportunity FundTom H. & Jane Fox Collinson

Devon Energy ScholarshipDevon Energy Corporation

Earth, Energy & Environment CenterJoel A. & Susan Perucca Alberts*Anadarko Petroleum CorporationEvan A. BargnesiSteve J. Blanke*Suzanne R. & Raul F. Brito*Stephen C. & Janelle L. BurnsChesapeake Energy CorporationChevron Humankind Matching Gift ProgramConocoPhillips CompanyDevon Energy CorporationPeter M. & Rachelle Dillett*

Steve & Maggie Dixon*ExxonMobil FoundationWilliam L. & Marilee Booth Fisher*James M. & Sherree G. Funk*Thomas L. HallChristina M. & Erik J. Hiemstra*Christopher W. Holien*Dan J. & Nancy L. Kennedy*Susan G. Stover & Danny R. KirchheferJonathan P. & Lauren R. Lange*Diana Dee LongMarathon Oil Company FoundationMarathon Oil Corporation Matching Gifts

ProgramDavid J. & Carolyn D. McBride*Marilyn Schnackel MeekMax G. & Patricia Harris MerrillOccidental Petroleum CorporationWilliam D. & Kathryn Wohlford Pollard*Frank M. & Rachel Lipman ReiberSamuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.Dale G. & Suzanne J. P. Schlinsog*Shell Oil Company FoundationMichael D. StatonAndrea S. & Gary D. Steinle*Wells Fargo FoundationMarvin D. Woody & Patricia St. ClairRichard M. & Sue Ann Wright, Jr.(* - Geology Associates Advisory Board Member)

Edward J. Zeller Geology FundGisela M. DreschhoffFrederic R. & Felisa Puszkin Siegel

Erasmus Haworth Distinguished Lectureship Fund

Frederic R. & Felisa Puszkin Siegel

Geology Associates Equipment FundChevron Humankind Matching Gift ProgramExxonMobil FoundationStuart & Harriet GrossmanEdward H. HaynesCarl B. Kinell IIIDuane H. & Peggy Sackett

Geology Department (Geology Associates Fund)

Anadarko Petroleum CorporationJames E. AndersonAlan K. BaileyUlf & Kelly M. BeckerMichael C. BerryMark R. BitterDavid J. BouquetHenry H. & Ardith R. Bretthauer

Michael D. & V. Catherine R. BrondosLaurence R. BrownDon F. & Jacquelyn N. CarlosSusan A. CarrollPeter K. CattaneoRonald R. CharpentierChevron Humankind Matching Gift ProgramChevron Products CompanyConocoPhillips CompanyNeal P. CramerBruce W. DawsonKent A. & Michele DeutschTerrence J. DewaneNancy T. & David B. DuaneMartin K. & Twyla F. DuboisToni L. EilertsExxonMobil CorporationExxonMobil FoundationChristopher J. FleisherElgin L. FlottStephen T. FranklinJack A. GarvenNatalie L. GarvenLee C. & Darcy L. GerhardTony J. & Celeste Cody GogelDavid J. GoldakDavid N. & Sarah L. GrimesRodney & Denise Shepherd HammHans R. & Jane N. HansenAndrew J. HerrsWendel J. HoppeWilliam J. & Coleen C. HurleyJohn & Naida J. JimenezSteffanie M. & Brian O. KeeferKyle H. & Cynthia Holbay KirchnerJohn P. & Janis W. KleinJonathan P. & Lauren R. LangeRichard D. Smith & Sondra M. LangelThomas L. & Linda Bartlett LentellKenneth H. & Carina H. ListerMichael E. LucenteMarathon Oil CorporationAlistair W. & Judith Saari McCroneKent C. & Annette F. McDonaldJesse M. & Frances Hara McNellisVicki Henderson McRaeMarilyn Schnackel MeekThe Merck Company FoundationDean M. MillerJohn M. MitsdarferDaniel P. Huffman & Janna Beth OettingOXY Inc.Walter I. PhillipsShane M. PoppBradford E. PratherLeonard M. & Pauline M. Rickards


David A. & Edith H. RossJoel W. RotertDee W. RoyPaul R. SauerackerMark K. & Kyoko Otsu SchroederCarole A. & Robert W. ScottMichael D. & Rebecca A. SeeberAnne F. SheehanCarolyn L. ShogrinRobert D. ShusterKenneth T. & Donnaleen Jones SmithSociety for Sedimentary GeologyMichael D. StatonEdwin A. & Sally L. SteneScott M. StrongDaniel K. & Mary Kathleen TarkingtonMichael H. TaylorJohn J. Thomas IIAlbert N. & Bobbie J. TylerRobert J. VinceGary R. & Regina VorwaldRonald J. WallaceW. Lynn & Karen Amundson WatneyNathan D. & Emily Reece WintersAlice A. Wright

George Devries Klein Colloquium Lectureship in Clastic Sedimentology

Roscoe G. Jackson IIGeorge Devries Klein

H. A. & Elsie Ireland ScholarshipThomas D. BeuHenry H. & Ardith R. BretthauerChevron Humankind Matching Gift

ProgramDonald E. & Marjorie E. HattinWilliam J. & Karen Trubitt JohnsonRonald R. McDowellHamilton C. PerkinsFrank S. TrautmanDouglas A. Vincent

Henbest Fund in GeologyJessica D. Cundiff

Hollis Dole Hedberg Memorial LectureGeorge Devries Klein

Hubert H. & Kathleen M. Hall Fund in Geology

Robert G. & Mary Ann Elliott

Hubert H. & Kathleen M. Hall Professorship in Geology

Kathleen M. Hall

Imogene A. Herndon ScholarshipNatalie B. Givens

James A. & Rowena E. Peoples Scholarship in Geophysics

Henry H. & Ardith R. BretthauerChevron Humankind Matching Gift

ProgramJulian M. & Elena Pencheva IvanovLynela J. & Salah Z. JarjurElizabeth J. JohnsonChristene M. & Brian K. MacyDouglas A. VincentPaul D. & Stacie Daniels Vincent

John W. Starr Teaching Equipment Fund in Geology

Dean A. McManus

Louis F. & Bets Dellwig Geology Field Camp Scholarship

Ernest E. & Margaret L. AnginoBarbara J. ArmbristerElizabeth E. & Marion E. BickfordJane M. CastelineJohn S. ChapmanConnecture Inc.Robert G. & Mary Ann ElliottRobert W. & Louise D. EndruschatGeorge W. & M. J. Erickson-EgerCharles A. FergusonJohn B. GilmoreDella M. HadleyThomas H. & Bargara Kadel HadleyLucille V. HansenGrace Whitenack HaydenRalph W. & Mildred L. HaydenBarbara C. HilpmanKay L. & Larry D. HopkinsIlse Nesbitt JonesMary P. LinsMark L. & Melinda MilleretCharles H. & Patricia Y. NicholasPatricia H. NicholsPauline M. NunemakerJames F. PivonkaHoward E. & Phyllis M. Reeves, Jr.Clayton R. RoarkMary Alice Soule SpencerMaurice & Vicki Bryant TownsendW. Randall & Edna J. Van SchmusDouglas A. Vincent

Lowell R. & Florence S. Laudon Fund in Geology

Chevron Humankind Matching Gift Program

Robert G. & Mary Ann ElliottExxonMobil FoundationKathleen M. HallPeter R. & Catherine L. LaudonMazzie Lane StegerJohn C. & Maura Youle

Merriam Graduate Student Research Award

Philip L. & Maxine J. Ferguson

Donald E. & Marjorie E. HattinDaniel F. & Annie L. MerriamRichard L. Schuman

Merrill Haas GeologyRobert G. & Mary Ann ElliottPhilip L. & Maxine J. Ferguson

Phillips Petroleum – Geology FundConocoPhillips

Ralph C. Lamb, Jr. Geology ScholarshipSarah Lamb

Raymond C. & Lilian B. Moore Fund in Geology

ExxonMobil FoundationStuart & Harriet GrossmanJohn J. & D. Fay Slimmer Simms

Raymond C. & Lilian B. Moore Scholarship in Geology

Stephen W. & Mary C. Dart, Jr.Denise A. & David M. FilkinsDonald E. & Marjorie E. HattinDouglas A. Vincent

Roger Kaesler Memorial FundJessica D. CundiffJack D. & Karen Sue KeimRonald R. McDowellTom PodrebaracGeorge D. & Barbara C. Stanley, Jr.Maurice & Vicki Bryant Townsend

Roscoe G. Jackson II Graduate Research Award in Geology

Roscoe G. Jackson II

Stelbar Oil Corporation Geology Graduate Student Support Fund

Suzanne R. & Raul F. Brito

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All alumni and friends of the Department of Geology at the University of Kansas become Geology Associates when they make a donation to the Department. Many of these individuals have contributed to funds established by the University of Kansas Endowment Association to provide support for various special purposes and activities of the Department. The category of Geology Life Associate has been established to provide special recognition in gratitude to those Associates who have donated $5,000 or more since the Geology Associates organization was formed in 1968. This list will be published in each issue of the G-Hawker in order to repeatedly convey our thanks for the generosity of these men and women.

Note: If you do not see your name here and believe it should be, please contact Luis González ([email protected]) or Liz Gravatt ([email protected]) so that we may correct our records.

Diana Bandler & Scott D. AdamsWilliam L. & Betty AdamsJoel A. & Susan Perucca AlbertsKarl E. & Virginia Ochs BeckerRobert D. & Virginia Ireland BeuThomas D. BeuBradley A. & Roz BirkeloSteve J. BlankeDavid J. BouquetWilliam A. & Roberta W. BramletteLaurence R. & Sally S. BrownNorman L. & Jenifer M. BurnettDon F. & Jacquelyn N. CarlosJohn L. & Ruth C. CarterTom H. & Jane Fox CollinsonRichard L. & Mary E. ConroyJohn A. & Joan Grotenhuis Cramer, Jr.Neal P. CramerMaurice C. & Annabel Casey CrookMarilyn A. & Mark S. DegnerFrances A. & John F. DevlinTerrence J. DewaneWatson & Eleanor DickermanSteven C. & Margaret C. DixonDarthea S. & Augustus diZerega VGisela Dreschhoff

Mary EnglemanWilliam L. & Marilee Booth FisherDavid W. & Marsha F. FosterFrances M. FrittsJames M. & Sherree G. FunkRose Haworth GidneyTony J. & Celeste Cody GogelRobert S. Grinnell, Jr.Stuart & Harriet GrossmanMerrill W. & Maria Ledezma HaasHubert H. & Kathleen M. HallThomas L. HallJohn W. Harbaugh & Audrey V. WegstRobert P. & Pauline Gill HarrisonDorothy Gatewood HawkinsEstate of Dorothy Gatewood HawkinsRuth HayHollis D. HedbergHarold D. & Imogene HerndonCarroll & Mary Anderson HirdH. Jerry HodgdenFred T. HoldenChristopher W. HolienFrederick G. HollBill D. & Carolyn A. HollandHarold W. HootsWendel J. HoppeWilliam J. & Coleen C. HurleyElsie B. IrelandMarjorie W. IrelandEstate of Marjorie W. IrelandRoscoe G. Jackson IIWalker H. & Margaret S. JosselynMarvin A. & Jerene H. KellerT. E. (Tim) KellyDan J. & Nancy L. KennedyCarl B. Kinell IIIGeorge Devries KleinJohn P. & Janis W. KleinKenneth M. & Vera B. KnollMax L. & Aliene Winchester KruegerRalph C. & Margaret L. Lamb, Jr.Paul R. LamersonKirsten (Kise) Krueger LaMontagneEstate of Roy P. LehmanKenneth H. & Carina H. ListerDiana D. LongJohn E. LuckenWilbert L. MathewsDavid J. & Carolyn McBrideAlistair W. & Judith Saari McCroneRobert E. McDonaldRonald R. McDowellDean A. McGee

Geology Life Associates Perry M. & Ethel A. McNallyJesse M. & Frances Hara McNellisRichard M. & Barbara Werbe MeekDaniel F. & Annie MerriamPercy A. & Katherine MeyersDean M. & Gloria Horn MillerA. Lyndon MorrowRichard M. MyersCharles OrthHarvey L. OrthRuby Pennington OttEstate of Ruby OttJoseph M. & Alice PattersonRowena Ewing PeoplesMichael S. & Sandra L. PerryWilliam D. & Kathryn Wohlford

PollardBradford E. PratherWallace E. PrattR. H. & Marilyn Neely Prewitt, Jr.Leonard M. & Pauline M. RickardsA. Scott & Carol L. RitchieDouglas H. RofheartDuane H. & Peggy SackettPaul R. SauerackerSuzanne J. P. & Dale G. SchlinsogGladys Long SeligJohn C. & Molly ShawverPatricia Gore ShieldsRichard L. ShieldsFrank L. & Carolyn L. ShogrinKenneth T. & Donnaleen Jones SmithJames D. & Laurie Lane SnyderMary Alice Soule SpencerGeorge D. & Barbara C. Stanley, Jr.John W. & Martha Phillips StarrAndrea S. & Gary D. SteinleBarbara R. & John J. Thomas IIWilliam ThordarsonChristopher R. & Stacy Rosner TincherCurt TeichertAlbert N. & Bobbie J. TylerJan F. & Mary van SantMyron L. VanceEric G. & Lisa Smith VoglRonald J. WallaceRay Pearce WaltersRobert G. & Nadyne Y. Walton, Sr.Clifford L. WillisDr. Richard S. & Caroline W. WingMarcia Ring Winslow & John Durfee

WinslowRoger L. & Lou Ann WoodSue Ann & Richard M. WrightEdward


Everett L. Bradley, known as “Brad,” was an Olympic champion and successful oil and gas explorer.

He was born to the Irvin Bradley family in Cedar, Iowa, on July 20, 1897. The family moved to Cherokee, Okla., when Bradley was 6, and he graduated from high school there. He finished his high school career by winning the all-around track championship of Oklahoma and Kansas in 1917. He then enrolled in KU that fall and become one of the finest all-around trackmen in KU history.

After serving as a volunteer in the U.S. Army 80th Infantry at Fort Logan, Texas, he resumed his schooling at KU. He was a good student and majored in geology, graduating in 1922 with his bachelor’s degree. That same year, he was president of the KU senior class, and he belonged to the Acacia fraternity and was president in 1922.

He was a member of the KU track team in addition to his academic credentials. He won championships in the pentathlon and decathlon at the Drake and Penn relays. He was the first KU athlete to take part in the Olympic games, and there he proved his skill and versatility. At Antwerp, Belgium, in the 1920 Olympics, he won a silver medal in the pentathlon. He was hailed as America’s premier athlete and was voted the Champion All-Around College Athlete of America. As of 1921, he was still undefeated by any American in all-around track events.

Upon graduation from KU, he joined H.E. Crum, also a KU graduate, to form a partnership for oil exploration. They discovered and developed three oil fields in Kansas and Colorado. That partnership lasted until 1929 when

Everett Bradley – KU’s GeoAthlete Superstar

Bradley formed a partnership with his brother Orval in Wichita.

The Bradley Brothers made several important oil discoveries, including the Hilger pool in Reno County, the Pawnee Rock pool in Pawnee County, the Bornholdt pool in Rice and McPherson counties and the Ogallah pool in Trego County. All together, they made 18 significant discoveries. They were among the earliest in Kansas to demonstrate the importance of stratigraphic traps.

Bradley was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Kansas Geological Society and was a director or an advisory board member of several corporations and companies. He was recognized for his efforts by the KU Geology Department with the Haworth Distinguished Alumni Award in 1968.

He died in Wichita on July 25, 1969, after a short illness and was interred in the Wichita Park Cemetery and Mausoleum. He was survived by his wife Margaret, three sons and their wives, eight grandchildren, and his brother Orval.

At the time of his death, his friend Melvern F. Bear of Wichita wrote of Bradley: “His sunny disposition and adroit wit made him a welcome addition to any gathering. The geologic profession has lost a dynamic and outstanding member.”

- Dan MerriamDepartment Historian

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Ernest Edward Angino was born on Feb.16, 1932 to Alfred and Filomena Mabel (Serluco) in Winsted, Conn., about 25 miles northwest of Hartford, and he is very proud of his Italian heritage.

He was raised and educated in Winsted where his favorite subjects were math, science and history. In 1950, Angino enrolled in Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., graduating in 1954 with a BS degree in Geophysics/Mining Engineering. From 1955 to 1957, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Geophysics Section at Fort Monmouth, N.J., as a Specialist 3rd class (electronics).

After serving in the Army, Angino was accepted to KU. This led to work in geochemistry with Ed Zeller. His master’s thesis in 1958 was on thermoluminescence as a geologic age determination method. He continued this work with Ed for a doctorate, receiving it in 1961 for a dissertation on “The effects of nonhydrostatic pressures on radiation damage thermoluminescence.” While conducting his research at KU, he was an Instructor teaching in the geochemistry program. Upon completion of his studies at KU, he accepted a position on the faculty at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Oceanography Geochemistry in the Department of Oceanography.

In 1965, Bill Hambleton enticed him back to KU to be Chief of the Geochemistry Section at the Kansas Geological Survey to upgrade and improve the offerings. In 1970, he was made the Associate Director and Associate State Geologist working with Hambleton, who was Director and State Geologist. He developed a program in organic geochemistry that included studies of saturated-unsaturated hydrocarbons, sterols, fatty acids in shales, recent and ancient sediments, and in brines.

In 1972, Angino became Chair of the KU Department of Geology where he served for the next 14 years. His tenure as chairman is third longest after Erasmus Haworth and Raymond C. Moore. Concurrent with his geology appointment was an appointment as a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. Angino consulted with companies on problems with the identification of hydrocarbons in sediments and water and trace element relations. In these studies, he made use of gas chromatography, IR, ESR, atomic adsorption spectrometry and other instruments.

In addition to his Department administrative duties, Angino taught on a regular basis: Introduction

In Appreciation

to Oceanography, Advanced Topics in Geology - Exploration Geochemistry, and Mineral and Energy Resources, each a three-hour course. A couple of these courses were redesigned later to allow students to take them with only the background of one science course in geology or geography or with permission of the instructor. He also was available for Senior Research, Masters Thesis, PhD Dissertation, and Special Problems. Angino supervised 11 master theses and doctoral dissertations in geochemistry and 12 in Civil Engineering and Biology at KU from 1972 to his retirement in 1999.

In his research, Angino has published more than 120 articles, papers and books in the area of geochemistry and became a recognized authority on several aspects. Subjects covered by his research include, among others, thermoluminescence, the Antarctic, trace-element geochemistry, pollution, aqueous geochemistry and radioactive waste disposal. He attended and presented the results of his work at national and international meetings. His research was supported by grants from NSF, ONR, AEC, EPA, Kansas Water Resources Research Institute and others.

Angino was very active in national and international geochemical societies and associations. He was Secretary of the Geochemical Society and a Councilor for the Society of Environmental Geochemistry & Health, served on the U.S. National

Ernest Angino


Committee on Geochemistry, Co-Chairman of the U.S. National Committee on Environmental Geochemistry in Relation to Health & Disease, Vice Chairman of Research & Development for the Federal Power Commission, and President of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry & Health. He also was a member of the Coordinating Council of the FPC, Research Committee of the American Geophysical Union and the Publications Committee of the Society for Sedimentary Geology. These are just a few examples of his service in the many organizations he belonged to.

He has received many honors, including the naming of Angino Buttress in Antarctica and the Antarctic Service Medal from the U.S. Department of Defense for Antarctic Research. In 1999, the Department gave Angino the Haworth Award. He received a distinguished service award and honorary membership in the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry. A meeting in his honor was organized at the Geological Society of America meeting in Salt Lake City in 1997. A graduate summer support scholarship has been set up at KU in Angino’s name and is awarded each year.

Angino also was active in local politics, serving on committees for the Chamber of Commerce and on the Lawrence City Commission and serving as Mayor of Lawrence. He was a Technical Advisor to the Kansas Bar Association, organized meetings, gave public lectures to various groups and was an advisor to several state agencies.

On a more personal side, Angino has had lots of quotations attributed to him. Some of the more interesting ones include, “That’s just gravy on the cake,” “There’s more than one way to slice a cat,” “That’s water over the bridge,” “Little pictures have big ears,” and “I heard you out of the corner of my eye.”

In his “retirement,” he keeps busy with family and hobbies. His hobbies are stamp collecting, especially those dealing with Antarctica Research, water pollution studies, old railroads and steam engines.

In 1954, he married Margaret Mary Lachat, and they have two children: Cheryl Ann and Kimberly Ann, who both live in Lawrence. They have three grandchildren.

Reference: Merriam, DF, 2009, Geology at The Uni-versity of Kansas, the first century and a bit beyond: KU Dept. Geology & Paleo Inst., Spec. Publ 6, 210 p. Acknowledgments: Thank you to Kathy Lafferty, KU Archives; Elizabeth Gravatt, KU Geology; Annette Delaney, Kansas Geological Survey, for retrieving information.

- Dan Merriam, Department Historian

These eight KU faculty and alumni are members of the National Academy of Sciences or Engineering. Who’s who? See the answer key on page 68.

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Who’s Who?


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In previous articles, the artistic abilities of some noted geologists and how they used art to help them understand geology have been explored (Merriam, Hambleton, and Charlton, 2005; Merriam, Charlton, and Hambleton, 2006; Merriam and Charlton, 2007; Charlton and Merriam, 2008; Merriam, 2012). Geologists are oriented visually and are used to thinking in 4D (3D space plus time), so it is natural for them to use sketches, drawings, watercolors and oils to express their impressions of geologic features and ideas. Some of these amateur artistic geologists were good enough to have made their livelihood at the trade had they so desired, and several of them did in fact make their living as artists or illustrators.

Many of the geologists illustrated their own books. For example Hans Cloos illustrated his biography,

which was published in 1953. Philip B. King illustrated his 1977 book on structural geology, and Jean Goguel produced beautiful sketches in his book on tectonics published in 1962. Closer to home, KU Professor R.C. Moore drew many of the invertebrate fossils in his and Cecil Lalicker and Alfred Fischer’s book on invertebrate paleontology, published in 1952. Many other examples could be cited (Merriam, 2009).

Artists interpret the geology in their works, and some of them are truly accurate. Some good examples are Thomas Moran, Thomas Cole, and William H. Homes who was a geologist/archaeologist (Drahos, 2012). Kansas examples would be Birger Sandzén (Merriam, in preparation), Robert Sudlow, Raymond Eastwood and James Hamil.

It was not rare for painters who were part of

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Here are a few artistic works by retired Kansas geologists. In the upper left is an oil painting on board of a scene in the Pacific Northwest painted by Dan Merriam. On the upper right is an oil painting on board of a landscape done in 1928 by Moore. The scene is presumed to be of a location in Europe and is signed but faintly in the lower left of the painting. On the lower left is an idealized mountain scene by John C. Davis (not signed and no date). On the lower right is a scene in springtime showing Mount Tallac in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California by Larry Brady.


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this movement (Hudson River School) to be keen scientists—and especially amateur geologists. (A. Drahos, The Art of the Sublime, 2012)

The camera often took the place of drawings and field sketches for the geologist; it was quicker and easier. However, the human touch of that personal ‘getting-to-know’ the feature or scene under scrutiny was lost in this approach. Moore took pictures in the field. In the office, Moore drew on those photographs with a pen and ink, then bleached the photographs, so that only his line drawing remained.

Moore had enough talent that he could have been a commercial artist; his drawings and painting were accurate and realistic. Although many of his line drawings have been reproduced and used in publications, only a few of his paintings have survived (Merriam, 2007). Several students—Jack Koenig and Roger Williams for example—who worked for Moore as on the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, were artists as well as geologists.

Other geologists were involved in art in other ways. The late Kansas Geological Survey Director Bill Hambleton was Chair of the Advisory Board for the Friends of Spencer Art Museum and a Docent at the museum. He also wrote an unpublished article entitled “Geology and Landscape Art.”

So, we have classical geologists that draw and paint, and classical artists who appreciate geology or have a background in the subject. Both groups express their understanding through their work.

References

Charlton, J.R., and Merriam, D.F., 2008, Geologic guideposts along the overland trails in Kansas: Kansas Geol. Survey, Open-file Rept. 2008-14, 25 p.

Drahos, A., 2012, The art of the sublime: Geoscientist, v. 22, no. 6, p. 19-21

Merriam, D.F., in preparation, The Kansas Swedish rock artist: Birger Sandzén

Merriam, D.F., 2007, Raymond Cecil Moore, legendary scholar and scientist: Univ. Kansas Dept.

Geology and Paleo. Inst., Spec. Publ. 5, 169.Merriam, D.F., 2009, A lost art: geological illustrations: GSA

Today, v. 19, no. 11, p. 30-34.Merriam, D.F., 2012, Kansas geology as viewed by the artist:

Kansas Geol. Survey, Open-file Rept. 2010-11, 21 p. .Merriam, D.F., Hambleton, W.W., and Charlton, J.R., 2005,

Artistic geologists and illustrators: Kansas Geol. Survey, Open-file Rept. 2005-33, 19 p.Merriam, D.F., Charlton, J.R., and Hambleton, W.W.,

2006, Kansas geology as landscape art: interpretation of geology from artistic works: Kansas Geol. Survey, Open-file Rept. 2006-11, 27 p.

Merriam, D.F., and Charlton, J.R., 2007, Artists and illustrators along the Kansas overland trails: geology from their pictorial records: Kansas Geol. Survey, Open-file Rept. 2007-18, 13 p.

- Dan MerriamDepartment Historian

Here is a watercolor on paper of the Organ Pipe National Monument that retired Kansas state geologist and KGS Director Lee Gerhard did in 2011. Roger Williams of the KGS sculptured the bust of R.C. Moore that is in the entranceway of Moore Hall on the West Campus.


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Graduate Degrees

Curtis Congreve PhD“Evolutionary Patterns of Trilobites across the End Ordovician Mass Extinction”

Karla L. Leslie PhD“Microbial Controls on Metal Ion Mobility”

Zhaoqi Li PhD“Diagenetic Controls on Porosity and Permeability in Miocene Carbonates, La Molata, Spain”

Brian E. Miller PhD“3-D Seismic Methods for Shallow Imaging Beneath Pavement”

Corinne E. Myers PhD“Paleobiogeography of the North American Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: the impact of abiotic vs. biotic factors on macroevolutionary patterns of marine vertebrates and invertebrates”

William M. Rittase PhD“Neogene to Quaternary Tectonics of the Garlock Fault and the Eastern California Shear Zone in the Northern Mojave Desert, California.”

Peter C. Schillig PhD“Hydrogeologic Controls on Bioactive Zone Development in Biostimulated Aquifers”

Richard H. Styron PhD“Estimating Fault Slip Rates Over 10 to 106 Year Timescales in the Himalaya and Tibet”

Eugene Szymanski PhD“Timing, Kinematics, and Spatial Distribution of Miocene Extension in the Central Arabian Margin of the Red Sea Rift System”

Brendan Anderson MS“Viewing Paleontology through a Geochemical lens: 2 Case Studies”

Christine M. (Frasca) Cornwell MS“Sequence Stratigraphy and Chemostratigraphy of an Incised Valley Fill within the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Book Cliffs, Utah”

Degrees Awarded December 2012 - May 2013

John W. Counts MS“Stratigraphic Distribution and Paleoenvironmental Implications of Pedogenic Features and Trace Fossils from the Lower Permian of Kansas”

Justin M. Fairchild MS“Paleotopography and Sea-Level controls on Facies Distribution and Stratal Architecture in the Westerville Limestone Member (Upper Pennsylvanian) NE Kansas and NW Missouri”

Sarah Z. Gibson MS“Investigating the Diversity of Semionotid Fishes (Neopterygii: Semionotiformes) in the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Southern Utah”

Jose Velez Gonzalez MS“Development of a Seismic Snow Streamer and Use of Multi-Offset Reflection for Determining Glacier Ice Properties”

Nazim Louni MS“Depositional Mechanisms in the Upper Cretaceous Panther Tongue of the Star Point Sandstone, East Central Utah”

Joseph C. Miller MS“Detrital Thermochronology of the Alpine Foreland Basin in Central Switzerland: Insights into Tectonic and Erosion History of the North Central Alps”

James T. Lyons MS“Diffusion in Saturated Porous Media: A Review”

Andrew T. McCallister MS“The Late Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Gurla Mandhata, Southwest Tibet”

Aimee Scheffer MS“Geochemical and Microbiological Characterization of the Arbuckle Saline Aquifer, a Potential CO2 Storage Reservoir; Implications for Hydraulic Separation and Caprock Integrity”

J. Tyler Schwenk MS“Constrained Parameterization of the Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves Approach with Application at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.”


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Peter Senior MS“Depositional Environment, Reservoir Properties, and EOR Potential of an Incised-valley Fill Sandstone, Pleasant Prairie Oilfield, Haskell County, Kansas”

Ayrat Sirazhiev MS“Seismic Attribute Analysis of the Mississippian Chert at the Wellington Field, south-central Kansas”

Jordan-Leigh Taylor MS“Practical Guide to Improved Magnetic (U-Th)/He Geochronometry – A case study from the Columbia River Basalt Group”

Gabriel E. Veloza-Fajardo MS“Active Faulting and Quaternary Slip Rates of the Colombian Sub-Andes”

Hannah N. Wasserman MS“Heterogeneity and Depositional Variability of Reef Sand Aprons: Integrated Field and Modeling of the Dynamics of Holocene Aranuka Atoll, Republic of Kiribati, Equatorial Pacific”

Undergraduate Degrees

Tricia Rae Klein BAStaci Lynn Krutsinger BALogan Caravaggio Byers* BSWade L. Condict BSJake Austin Elder BSLaura Elizabeth Fackrell BSBrian Daniel Klipp BSBlake Scott Miller BSEdward Roy Morehouse BSRyan J. Nicholas BSStephan C. Oborny BSMatthew P. Rader BSMallory Frank Stevenson BSJacqueline West Walden BS

*Graduated with Departmental Honors

For Evan Bargnesi (MS ’11), making a financial donation to KU Geology is a simple act of gratitude, thanking faculty and staff for all they did for him.

“The Department gave me a lot more than I’ve just given them with my modest donation,” says Bargnesi, who lives in California and works for Occidental Petro-leum as a geologist. “I feel like it’s the least I can do. It’s also one way of staying involved and supporting the Geology Department. Being so far away, it’s hard. I haven’t been able to be as involved as I would like to be.”

Bargnesi’s donation is supporting the new Earth, Energy and Environment complex. He says even the smallest gifts can make a difference and urged all alum-ni to support the new building. “If everybody gives a little bit, we can make a lot happen.”

With his gift, Bargnesi was also able to take ad-vantage of Occidental’s matching gift program. “That doubled the impact of my donation,” he says. “I felt like I was making a lot more of a difference than I could alone.”

Bargnesi came to KU after earning a bachelor’s degree from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. He and his wife, Laura Alford-Bargnesi, live in Bakersfield with their Papillon dog, Lillian. Laura is also employed by Occidental Petroleum.

Bargnesi says they miss Lawrence, but that they have found KU alumni everywhere they go. “We’re really fortunate to be able to have that in common with

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people,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when I meet people who went to KU, even if it was in another department, we instantly have a solid common ground. We’ve made a lot of friends out here that way.”

And of course, they remain diehard Jayhawk bas-ketball fans. “We try to never miss a game,” he says.

Laura Alford-Bargnesi and Evan Bargnesi


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2013 HONORS BANQUETThe Department of Geology faculty, staff and students met for the annual Honors Banquet on May 10, 2013. The following honors, fellowships, scholarships, and awards were announced.

JAN F. & MARY VAN SANT GEOLOGY EXCELLENCE AWARDMichael H. Taylor

LEO M. & ROBERT M. ORTH WATER RESOURCES SCHOLARSHIP

Britney Katz

ERASMUS HAWORTH HONOR AWARDSOutstanding Senior StudentLogan Caravaggio Byers Outstanding Master’s StudentJonathan W. CountsOutstanding Doctoral StudentPeter C. Schillig

ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN GEOSCIENTISTS SCHOLARSHIP

Chevron Graduate Research ScholarshipsMarayani Barve Jennifer GlaubiusKyleen Kelly Molly LongAnna WieserOsage Chapter Service ScholarshipsScott McConaghyOsage Chapter Undergraduate Research ScholarshipFarzana Ahmed Jacque MillerSean S. Thomson Service ScholarshipMatt Downen

SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON W. A. TARR AWARD

Logan C. Byers

GRADUATE SUMMER SUPPORT Ernest Angino Geochemistry ScholarshipRubina Firdous Brian GibsonConocoPhillips Graduate Research ScholarshipTandis BidgoliEncana Energy ScholarshipBritney Katz Molly LongPaula RichterLloyd Henbest ScholarshipAndrew ConnollyFrederick T. Holden ScholarshipNicole Dzenowski Angela Thompson

Roscoe G. Jackson II Graduate Research in Geology AwardNatalie Burris Erica DalmanMatt DownenRoger L. Kaesler Memorial AwardAmanda FalkRoy & Freda Lehman ScholarshipJeffrey RossMarathon Oil Company ScholarshipMatt MyersDean A. McGee ScholarshipTandis Bidgoli

Merriam Graduate Student Research AwardSean HammersburgRaymond C. & Lilian B. Moore ScholarshipSarah Gibson James LamsdellJoshua SchmergeJames A. & Rowena E. Peoples Geophysics

ScholarshipChris PerllAugust L. Selig ScholarshipMatt Jones Erin SaupeStelbar Geology Graduate Student ScholarshipAmanda Falk Ryan Voegerl

UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPSDevon Energy ScholarshipTina Redlinger Angela UnreinFrederick T. Holden ScholarshipJacob Clayton Steven FinchIsaac Javier Jordan SmithBill & Carolyn Holland ScholarshipAdrianne DuarteH. A. & Elsie Ireland ScholarshipDuncan McDonald Jacquelyn MillerRalph C. Lamb, Jr. AwardCassie Absher Alex NolteDanielle Wood Adam YoergRoy & Freda Lehman ScholarshipAlisha ShipleyMarathon Oil Corporation ScholarshipKate Ruoff Brian SitekDean A. McGee ScholarshipJason Jones Jonathan MayBrandon Montero Matthew MulheranMarquise Paige


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James A. & Rowena E. Peoples ScholarshipDaniel FeigenbaumAlec Waggoner Memorial ScholarshipJessica Shumway

GEOLOGY 360 SCHOLARSHIPSBradley Memorial Scholarship FundBrad Trammel Jen YarringtonFrederick T. Holden ScholarshipMathew MulheranH. A. & Elsie Ireland ScholarshipJoshua Jaimez Scott MooreAlex Nolte Marquise PaigeRalph C. Lamb, Jr. AwardLauren Haga Adam YoergDean A. McGee ScholarshipMeghan Railsback Danielle WoodringRay P. Walters ScholarshipSteven Finch Jason Jones

FIELD CAMP SCHOLARSHIPSLouis F. & Bets Dellwig Field Camp ScholarshipClinton Brumm Jacob ClaytonAdrienne Duarte Jordan SmithZackary YoungLloyd Henbest ScholarshipAshton SparksFrederick T. Holden ScholarshipBrett Kennedy Jacquelyn MillerTy TenpennyH. A. & Elsie Ireland ScholarshipJacob Fastner Clyde RedgerRalph C. Lamb, Jr. AwardTina Redlinger Jessica ShumwayBrian SitekDean A. McGee ScholarshipDaniel Fiegenbaum Angela UnreinAndrew VohsRaymond C. & Lilian B. Moore ScholarshipAlisha Shipley Reed Waldon

2012-2013 Grants and Awards to StudentsDiana Ariza-Ortega AAPG Foundation Robert K. Goldhammer Memorial

Grant

Ted Morehouse Kansas Geological Foundation Scholarship

Erica Dalman Kansas Geological Foundation ScholarshipAAPG Foundation Peter W. Gester Memorial Grant

Amanda Falk Kansas City Gem and Mineral Society ScholarshipKansas Academy of Science Third Place Award

Andy Connolly Kansas Academy of Science First Place Award

Nicole Dzenowski Geological Society of America Research GrantExxonMobil’s Global Geoscience Recruiting Research

AwardPaleontological Society Student Research Grant

Award

Russell “Hunter” Harlow KU Office of Graduate Studies - Capitol Research Summit

Angela Thompson Geological Society of America Research Grant

James Golab Geological Society of America Research Grant

Jennifer Lowery Geological Society of America Research Grant2013 AAPG SCLS and AAPG Leadership DaysSEPM Foundation Research GrantAAPG Foundation Kenneth H. Crandall Memorial

Grant

Britney Katz Geological Society of America Research Grant

Chris Perll Geosyntec Consultants Student Paper Competition

Blair Schneider KU Office of Graduate Studies Distinguished Service

Award

Jeffrey Oalmann KU Office of Graduate Studies Honorable Mention

Christa Jackson ExxonMobil’s Global Geoscience Recruiting Research

Award


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1946

HOLLAND, JR., F.D., Parkwood Place Apt 342, 749 S. 30th St., Grand Forks, ND 58201. BS ’46. Retired Emeritus Professor from The University of North Dakota.

1948

MACKALLOR, JULES A., 7418 Spring Village Dr., #327, Spring-field, VA 22158. BS ’48. Retired Mineral Economist.

MEEK, MARILYN SCHNACK-EL, 3136 S. 47th St., Kansas City, KS 66106. BS ‘48. Retired clerical staff for Heart of America Council and Boy Scouts of America.

1950

MITCHELL, PORTER H., 7707 West Britton Rd., Oklahoma City, OK 73102. BS ’50. Retired Petro-leum Geologist.

ZINSER, ROBERT W., 20431 N. Meadowood Dr., Sun City West, AZ 85375. BS ’50. Retired from Sun Oil Company.

1951

TAPPAN, GEORGE, 3618 High-green Dr., Kingwood, TX 77339-2627. BS ’51. Enjoying the calm of age. My two KU grandsons keep me in touch with Lawrence.

1952

ASQUITH, DONALD O., 362 Travis Dr., Los Osos, CA 93402. MS ’52. I am retired, relaxed and a widower here on the central coast of California. The sewage treatment

facilities that I have been involved in and advocated for 29 years are finally being built. My 5 children, two of whom also live here in Los Osos, take good care of me.

GRIMES, DAVID N., 2107 Oak-lawn Dr., Midland, TX 79705. BS ’52. Proudly, member of AAPG since 1952, Dr. Lalicker’s Petro-leum Geology class. On 5/13/10, received West Texas Geological So-ciety designation/award: “Pioneer Award” 1955 – present.

PERKINS, HAMBLETON C., 36 Rockaway Ave., Marblehead, MA 01945. MS ’52. Retired Industrial Hygienist. Jean and I celebrated 63 years of marriage last November. Our son and two daughters, five grandchildren and one great grand-daughter all now live within a ra-dius of 15 miles, with the exception of a grandson who prefers Newport Beach in Los Angeles, but is a frequent visitor. After some years as a Petroleum Geologist in Texas and Louisiana, we returned to Massa-chusetts and I became an Industrial Hygienist covering New England and upstate New York. Jean became a schoolteacher. We both retired in the 1980’s and don’t know how we had time to work. Did a lot of trav-eling and collecting antiques. Have lost contact with most classmates at KU and would welcome a sign from any who still remember me. Lot of changes on The Hill since I gradu-ated in 1952, but cherish many fond memories of my stay in Kansas.

1954

DOUGLASS, MYRL R. “Bob”, 42 Shadow Ln., Destrehan, LA 70047. MS ’54, BS ’53. Still have clients wanting my service. Still

partnering with fellow geologists getting wells drilled. Still fun.

NICHOLAS, RICHARD L., 1129 Dryden Ln., Charlottesville, VA 22903. MS ’54. Retired Chief Geologist from Shell Oil Company. Thoroughly retired, but still have a deep interest in geology, and especially the petroleum industry. Serve on a geological advisory committee for the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources (Geological Survey). Outside activities/hobbies include researching local history and writing Civil War papers. Pub-lished a book last year for the local Historical Society on the Civil War. Always recall the great experiences and the splendid education I re-ceived at KU and especially taking “Field Stratigraphy” under a great of geology—R. C. Moore.

1955

DENNY, L. M. (MICK), 3509 Shell, Midland, TX 79707. BS ’55. Still looking for hydrocarbons!

RICHARDS, GLENN, 16085 East Lehigh Cir., Aurora, CO 80013. MS ’55. Retired Geologist. Continue to be active in photography with my wife Jane. Recent trips to Cambo-dia, Falkland Islands and Iceland. See our images at firemoonimages.com.

1956

BROOKS, GAIL GORDON, 38 Bosun Terr., Whitby, Wellington, New Zealand. BS ’56. Still living above the Pauatahanui Inlet in Wel-lington. Three of our four surviving children live in California. We now have nine grandchildren, ranging


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in age from 2 to 27 years and two young great-grandchildren. After a 50-year career (spent mostly in SW Asia and Africa (both NE and west), China, Japan, Canada, Australia, Peru and Findlay, New Zealand) retirement to New Zealand, where I became a citizen in 1980, has been a totally delightful experience. I have not kept any contact with the industry where I spent my entire working life. We live in a beautiful seaside suburb where now, as our ages approach 80, we have slowed the pace of our lives to match our physical condition. Reading and TV watching have become major parts of our daily activities.

HODSON, WARREN, MS ’56, BS ’53. No changes from last year. Just a little older and a little slower.

LAMERSON, PAUL R., 1941 S. Parfet Dr., Lakewood, CO 80227-1903. MS ’56, BS ’54. During the national AAPG convention in Pittsburgh I was awarded AAPG’s Pioneer Award on May 19, 2013.

RICHARD, JAMES C., 11736 Cherry Point Ln., Oklahoma City, OK 73099. BS ’56. Retired Explo-ration Geologist. Have 3 children, 23 grandchildren and 46 great grandchildren (a record?).

1957

KLEIN, GEORGE DEVRIES, 7119 Spring Orchard Ln., Rich-mond, TX 77407. MA ’57. Recipi-ent of the Houston Geological So-ciety’s GEOLOGICAL LEGENDS AWARD for his contributions to sedimentology and petroleum geology. The Houston Geological Society is the world’s largest local geological society (bigger than SEPM). George also recently com-pleted an eight-month consultancy

dealing with the Southern basin of Trinidad and in the process, at the client’s request, developed a new stratigraphic mode for that basin’s geology.

McNELLIS, JESSE M., 3327 West 8th St., Lawrence, KS 66049-3116. BS ’57. Retired Hydrogeolo-gist at the U.S. Geological Survey. Still moving! Fran and I have 11 grandchildren ranging 3 years to 16 years. Six boys, 5 girls. Lots of fun, we think. We are blessed!

1959

KITLEN, LARRY W., 2302 Horseshow Bend, Temple, TX 76502. BS ’59 (Geological Engi-neering). Retired engineer with Kingwood Oil, The Southland Corp.

1960

ANDERSON (DODSON), BAR-BARA J., 1306 N. Northshore Blvd., Wichita, KS 67212. BS ’60. I continue to be blessed with good health and energy. Life is good with some traveling, hobbies-clay work, yoga and gardening. KU gave me a wonderful foundation.

HODGDEN, H. JERRY, 408 18th St., Golden, CO 80401. MS ’60, BS ’53 (Geological Engineering). This year I received a certificate from the AAPG stating that I have been a member for 60 years, which should make me feel old and at least a little out of date - if not just obsolete!....but my first thought in reflecting on what six decades had done to me was, “OK! Now that the training period is behind me, it’s time for me to turn out some really good geol-ogy!” It seems like only yesterday that I took Geology 101 (and later Sedimentation) from Andy Ireland,

as well as Historical Geology and Petroleum Geology from Cecil Laliker, Mineralogy from Robert Dreyer, Structural Geology from Lou Dellwig, Field Methods from Walter Showe, Economic Geol-ogy (and Field Camp) from Bill Hambleton and Paleontology and (that course of courses) Geological Development of the World from the old master geologist himself, “Herr Doctor Professor” Ray Moore! What a faculty lineup that was! I was a lucky guy to be taught my profession by that super talented crew! … But having the advantage of their training and 60 years of exploration experience behind me, I’m now fully prepared to go out and explore for oil and gas! Look for sandstones or limestones with great porosity to hold the prize, and some fabulous permeability to allow the black gold and gases to flow into a trap like an anticlinal fold, a pinchout, a truncation, or maybe a fault trap! BUT WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY? Did you point your finger at me and say: “How very ‘conventional’ of you, ol’ fell-er. That may have been the way it was back in your day—the old way! But there’s new technology and things aren’t the same as when you were in your prime!” “Now we do things in an ‘unconventional’ way” as you older guys would say! We go directly to the ‘source’! Now we look for a hydrocarbon rich shale, then we drill right along that bed and ‘hit it’ with a hydro-frac!” And with this unconventional approach the USA is not only becoming Energy Independent, but potentially the world’s leading producer of oil and gas! I may have been around for a few decades and seen a little more petroleum history than some, but I was taught geology right here at KU, and I was trained by some of the best people in our science (some of whom are listed above by


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name) to keep an open mind and stay abreast of the changes and new directions and developments in our field, so keep your eyes open for some horizontal drilling in some truly unconventional horizons that I’m working on to inspire some unique exploration right here in Kansas. So you see that if you are taught by the very best, as we were at KU, you’re never too old to take on the next challenge. That being said, let me tell you of a few other things that make my life happy, joyful and fulfilled. Over the years I have adopted three wonderful sons (and their beautiful wives and chil-dren). The “kids” are now ages 56, 46 and 39… I go on field trips now and then with the Rocky Moun-tain Association of Geologists, the Colorado Scientific Society and oth-er groups. I stay active in Golden’s civic affairs. I am Chairman of the Golden Parks and Recreation Board and have been on the board for 19 years so far. I am especially proud of our award winning golf course for which I suggested its name - Fossil Trace. I’m also on the board of the Golden Landmarks Associa-tion. I still operate Hodgden Oil Company and drill an occasional well, but I also do some consult-ing (mostly throughout Kansas and the Cook Inlet of Alaska). I have been working on plans to reopen the platinum mining operation that I operated for 10 years at the Good-news Bay Platinum Complex along the west coast of Alaska.

JORDAN, JOHN W., 6613 E 10th, Wichita, KS 67206. BS ’60. Attor-ney.

MICHELSON, JAMES E., PO Box 321, Palm City, FL 34991. MS ’60. Semi-retired since 1985 when my company was sold. I continue to do enough geology to justify my investments in oil and gas. I have a

wife of 50 years, five children and a lot of grandchildren. Still in good health and enjoying life.

PETERSEN, CLARK H., 14421 SE 183rd St., Renton, WA 98058. BS ’60. Retired but still evaluating exploration and development stage mining companies for investment. Focus now on PMG, alloys and REE deposits in North America and Greenland. As a hobby visit Tucson annually to buy and trade mineral specimens at Gem and Mineral Show. Rounding out my economic geology mineral collec-tion. Enjoy river-rafting trips. In 2009 floated the Buffalo River in Arkansas, and collected rocks and minerals in classic localities. My field notebook for Fall 1957 Min-eralogy trip to Tri-State lead/zinc district, Carthage; and Hot Springs, Ark., was loaned and lost. Would like to match my mineral specimens to someone’s old KU field notes to verify locale. Rafted for a week on Owyhee River, Oregon, with a team mapping geology for BLM guidebook. Contact me if you visit Seattle area and would like to see geological sites, or take a river trip of geological interest in Northwest. (425) 226-1211 or [email protected].

1961

ADAMS, LARRY W., 12080 E. Nunn Rd., Athol, ID 82801. MS ’61, BS ‘60. Retired in 2001 and moved to Northern Idaho. Still do some consulting with former firm and other clients. Wife (Alice) and I enjoy retired life on our 22-acre Sage Creek Ranch. Our three daughters and 10 grandchildren also live in this area.

ANGINO, ERNEST E., 4605 Grove Dr., Lawrence, KS 66049. PhD ’61, MS ‘58. Retired Emeri-

tus Professor from the University of Kansas. Passed big 80 in 2012. Economic Development Committee Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Researching and writing articles on Postal History (meters) for Meter Stamp Society.

GROSSMAN, STUART, 5627 Jackwood, Houston, TX 77096. PhD ’61. Retired Geologic As-sociate from Exxon Exploration. I retired from Exxon in ’93. There were a whole host of retirees be-cause very little was going on with the oil companies with respect to exploration. I am now 85 years old and doing Geology was a long time ago, but I am proud that the Geol-ogy Department at Kansas is doing so well.

HABIB, DANIEL, 24 Toni Ct., Plainview, NY 11803-3022. I was deeply moved when I learned, belatedly, of Larry Martin’s death. I enjoyed the discussions we had at SVP meetings where I found him to be both a scholar and a gentleman. I was retired in 2007 after 41 years as professor at Queens College and as an executive officer in the PhD graduate program. I’ve been teach-ing courses in dinosaur paleontol-ogy for about 20 years. Immensely enjoyable. I’ve published a book on the subject through Amazon.com, a copy of which I sent to the depart-ment at KU. Married to the same wife for 42 years, still love her. Three children (and grandchildren)!

LINEBACK, JERRY A., PO Box 1220, Grantham, NH 03753. MS ’61, BS ‘60. Retired Professional Geologist. Retired from KDHE in March, 2011, to the hills of New Hampshire. Enjoying gardening and attending local field trips to learn more about New England geology. My wife (Carol Harlow, who has had several geology courses and


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worked as an Environmental Scien-tist) and I celebrated the 125th an-niversary of the Geological Society of America by attending the North-eastern section meeting at the Mt. Washington Resort Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH in March, 2013.

SACKETT, DUANE H., 3507 Valley Chase Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345. MS ’61. I spent most of last summer rehabbing a broken hip, so this year I’ve been trying to catch up on all of the chores that I didn’t get done then. On a winter trip, we got to spend a little time on the Be-lize Reef, but that’s about as close to geology as I’ve come this year.

1962

EMERY, PHILIP, 4475 CR25, Mt. Home, AR 72653. MS 62, BS ’60. Retired from USGS and Consulting.

FISHBURN, MAURICE, 641 Mt. Antero Way, Boulder City, NV 89005. MS ’62, BS ‘61. Retired Geologist. Enjoying retirement – Moved from Bakersfield, CA, to Boulder City, NV, to escape Califor-nia heat (good idea???). Plenty of rocks in Nevada!

KEIM, JACK D., 3804 Stockade Ct., Lawrence, KS 66049-2144. BS ’62. Retired from the PI at KU 11 years ago, still living in Jayhawk Country central (Lawrence) and enjoying every day to the fullest. Happy trails!

SIESSER, WILLIAM G. (Bill), 2009 Overhill Dr., Nashville, TN 37215. BS ’62. I still go in to the Vanderbilt Geology Department for a few hours once or twice each week. Studying geology is just too much fun to stop doing!

1963

HARRIS, LEAMAN D., 656 Touchmark Ct., Edmond, OK 73003. MS ’63, BS ‘60. This has been a rather uneventful year pro-fessionally speaking. I did complete an autobiography, at least up to the present time. The section on “Get-ting Educated,” mostly my time at Lawrence, was one of the last parts finished. Your readers may be in-terested in how I learned to use the mainframe computer in the Busi-ness School to calculate statistical parameters for my Masters thesis: A Statistical Analysis of Sediment Dispersal in the Alluvial Valley of Lower Mississippi River, 1962. It must have been one of the first times a computer was used for a KU Geology Department thesis. A computer savvy graduate student in the Physics Department helped me program the computer and showed me how and where to create punch cards to feed data into the computer. I spent several hours doing that! Use of the computer was free for graduate student theses, but the ap-plicable department had to approve the time used. One day the Geology Department chairman, Dr. Louis Dellwig, called me to his office. I could tell he was upset about some-thing and when I got to his office he was fuming! He said, “What is this charge of $602 for computer time all about?” I explained that the Business School was just notify-ing him of the cost of the time I had requested (the job required 10 hours and two minutes of computer time at $1 per minute). It was not a bill but they needed his approval to program the time. He was skepti-cal, so I gave him a number to call at the Business School. He did that and as the conversation proceeded I could see that he was calming down. He approved the time ,but I think he was never quite sure of

what to think of me after that. Judy and I are enjoying retirement at the Touchmark Retirement Center in Edmond. We serve on the Resident Council, me as Treasurer, and Judy as Secretary, and continue to travel. Most recently we toured the Grand Canyon with the Road Scholar or-ganization. A retired professor from Northern Arizona State University provided excellent and interesting information. It was the first time I was on a guided tour of the Canyon. As a student I was too poor to af-ford the occasional tours led by KU Geology professors.

SCAFE, DONALD W., 11220 73rd Ave., Edmonton, AB T6G 0C6, Canada. MS ’63. I retired from Alberta Geological Survey March 31, 2000. Still married (51 years) to my Dearly Beloved Good -Old-What’s-’er-Name who is as ornery and exciting as ever, and I do not wish to contemplate life without her! I still edit and produce the quarterly newsletter (8 to 20 pages) for the streetcar society in Edmonton (16 years) and regularly drive (23 years) the cars either at Fort Edmonton Park or over The High Level Bridge. Georgie and I exercise regularly, and she keeps feeding me healthy meals. Life is good.

1964

GERHARD, DARCY L., 1628 Alvamar Dr., Lawrence, KS 66047. BS ’64. (see Lee C. Gerhard, be-low)

GERHARD, LEE C., 1628 Alva-mar Dr., Lawrence, KS 66047. PhD ’64, MS ’61. Not a whole lot of news from Lawrence, but we have been busy. My first non-technical book is out, Cowboys and Carpen-ters and Rifles and Rods, available at Amazon (e-book) or Colorado


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Wildlife Federation (hard copy). The next book of stories about being a geologist is ready for final edits, and the novel is in second draft. I also write a story for each issue of one of my outdoor organi-zations’ periodical. Writing without the bother of extended bibliographic citations is a pleasure. We’ve trav-eled some, including Antarctica, and have some more travel planned for this summer and fall. Despite lingering issues from a tick bite, I still hunt and fish, albeit I fly fish from a chair. The best news from the tick bite is that I had to learn to walk and swing a golf club all over again. This time I learned to hit the ball a lot more correctly than before. Making lemonade from sour lemons, as it were. We spend a lot of time in Tennessee now, where our grandkids hang out south of Nashville. There we live within in a mile of our daughter and her family. Darcy is hooked on the two grandkids. We keep up with old friends (we really mean “OLD”), participate in community affairs and enjoy each other’s company. Hear-ing from former students about their success is a joy. Still involved in the oil patch, but not as active as I used to be. Still actively working on climate change research and com-munication and still regard empiri-cal data more valid than computer models. Regards to all.

1966

BUCHWALD, ED, 13192 Cannon City Blvd., Northfield, MN 55057. PhD ’66. Retired Professor of Geol-ogy and Environmental Studies from Carleton College.

1967

CHURCH, STAN, 601 Little River Path, The Villages, FL 32162. MS

’67, BS ’65. I retired after working 45 years as a geologist. I worked the last 30 years with the USGS Mineral Resources program in Denver. I shut down my consult-ing business; it was too much like work. I am still writing and publish-ing papers, only five or six more to go before I cut it off. I hope I live long enough to finish them! Prog-ress on the writing is slow nowa-days as other activities seem to take precedent for my time. My wife and I are celebrating our 47th wedding anniversary in August. We love to travel. We have two children and five grandchildren, now all teenag-ers! Wow, how time flies.

COTT, ROBERT W., 149 W Ridge Rd., Cleveland, OK 74020. PhD ’67. Research Associate at the University of Tulsa.

1968

SANDLIN, LARRY, 5032 Cliff Point Circle W, Colorado Springs, CO 80919. MS ’68, BS ’66. Retired from the Air Force and aerospace industry. Linda and I, married 46 years, are both retired. I keep busy with building and maintain web sites for non-profit organiza-tions, riding my Harley all around, including Sturgis, and keeping four cars, eight motorcycles and a house going. Linda is big into lineage organizations such as DAR, Colonial Dames of America and Colonial Dames of the 17th Century. She and my two sons ride their Harleys with me. Don’t expect to ever leave the Springs as the hiking, biking, trail riding and camping is the greatest. Fires are an exception, but the last one close to here, Waldo Canyon, came a mile from here and burned everything so the threat of another big fire is 50 years away. If you have some extra rain or water, please send.

1969

GOGEL, TONY, 9904 Cherokee Ln., Leawood, KS 66206. MS ’69. Retired Environmental Consul-tant. Another year passes and we continue on our life’s journey. For us it has been very satisfying and fortuitous. Went on a river cruise on the Danube in Hungary, Austria and Germany. Very interesting and worthwhile. Another one planned for June 2014 in France. Will also visit Normandy (long on my bucket list). Hope everyone has been as fortunate as us.

MALKOSKI (LARSON), MIM, 2891 South Xanadu Way, Aurora, CO 80014. BS ’69. Retired from teaching science and language arts at Cherry Creek Schools. 1970

POLLARD, WILLIAM D., 411 Hazelwood Dr., Ft. Worth, TX 76107. MS ’70. Kathy and I are enjoying an active working life. At Burnett, we are expanding our ef-forts in the oil-prone Permian Basin with projects in Southeast New Mexico and on the Central Basin Platform in West Texas. Several new venture projects are exciting. We are going on a Baltic Sea cruise in August 2013. Both daughters, husbands and three grandchildren have moved to Austin, TX, to our great pleasure.

1971

ELLIOTT, MARY ANN (EW-ING), 301 Grant St., Salida, CO 81201. BA ’71. (see Bob Elliott, below).


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1972

ELLIOTT, BOB, 301 Grant St., Salida, CO 81201. MS ’72. After 38 years in the desert (Midland, TX), we moved to the Beautiful Upper Arkansas valley in Salida. The golf course is across the street with a view of mountains Shavano, Antero, Princeton out our front widows! Mary retired after teaching 19 years of 8th grade science. Bob is semi-retired. Law practice limited to Texas oil & gas law for select clients. Daughter Carrie is the lead scientist (geologist) for the Missouri River basin for the USGS. Son Cris is currently at the Air Defense Artil-lery Museum at Ft. Sill, Lawton, OK. Son Tom is an environmental geologist with Tetratech in Midland, TX. Mary and Bob enjoy biking, both tandem and singles, having biked across Kansas numerous times, Katy Trail (Missouri) twice and Michigan Upper Peninsula. Now that we are in Colorado we see a lot of fly fishing, hiking and bik-ing in our future. Maybe we’ll even take up golf.

PODREBARACK, THOMAS J., 1100 West 10th St., #522, Fort Worth, TX 76102. BS ’72. Work-ing the Midland Basin for XTO Energy in Ft. Worth, TX, after 36½ years in the Gulf Coast offshore and onshore.

1973

TOWNSEND, VICKI B., 13902 Briar Place Dr., Houston, TX 77077. BA ’73. Reading Tutor and Site Director for Making It Better.

1974

LEWIS, RICHARD D., 97 Betts Rd., Stafford, VA 22554. BS ’74. Enjoying research, program man-

agement, rowing, sailing and academic interests. Just finished my 5th Masters. This one in Interna-tional Strategy and Policy. Looking forward to seeing all of the great friends from KU.

SPENCER (SOULE), MARY ALICE, 1001 Senora Ave., Bill-ings, MT 59105. MS ’74. Retired Supervisory Geologist. My hus-band, John (MS, Iowa State, 1974) and I remain active with volunteer-ing. John works with a group that builds and maintains urban trails. I still spend some time helping with art activities for kids at our local art museum. I have been more active during the last year volunteering at Zoo Montana for some of their special events such as Boo at the Zoo (Halloween) and Zoo Lights (Christmas). I also give some tours and do some grounds work weeding and cutting Russian olives down. As always I keep busy with my callig-raphy and art activities.

1976

CRICK, REX E., 3707 Cypress-wood Meadows Ct., Spring, TX 77388. MS ’76, BS ’72. COO with The Sionix Corporation.

REYNOLDS, DANIEL M., 9032 East Lakepoint Dr., Wichita, KS 67226. BS ’76. Owner/Operator of Coral Coast Petroleum, LC. MS Geology 1979, Wichita State University. Wife Carol: (married 35 years) WSU ’77. Daughters: Alison: KU graduate in business in 2002. Dana: Student in Florida Atlantic University. Owner of Coral Coast Petroleum, LC since 1995. National President of SIPES Foundation 2004. Vice President of AAPG DPA 2005. Past representative of Mid Continent of AAPG.

1977

STANLEY, GEORGE D., 1900 Alvina Dr., Missoula, MT 59802. PhD ’77. Completed a sabbatical year 2012-2013 and during that time worked at the University of Washington in Seattle. I also took part in national and international meetings, including the 12th Inter-national Coral Reef Symposium, July 9-13, 2012 in Cairns, Australia, where I organized a session on an-cient coral reefs and crises. The ma-jor concern at this meeting was the serious decline in the global health of reefs today and what we can do about it. I also took part in meetings and field trips in Austria to examine the strata and fossils at the end of the Triassic when Earth experienced a global mass extinction. While at UW I visited the Burke Museum and was a visiting scholar at the UW Marine Lab at Friday Harbor. Barbara and I continue to enjoy Montana with the cats and Rocky the dog. Enjoy my visits to KU and work in the Geology Associates.

1978

MATHEWS, WILBERT L., 158 Ocean View Dr., Sea Point, Cape Town, S. Africa. MS ’78, BS ’75. Senior Geologist with Mateus Pe-troleum Consultants, LLC.

George Stanely, left, and Luis González entertain the Honors Banquet.


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NETTLES, CHRIS, 1901 Beaver Pl., Anchorage, AK 99504. BS ’78. President of GeoTek Alaska, INC.

SMITH, JERRY A., 401 S. Nin-eiron, Wichita, KS 67235. BS ’78. Independent Consultant.

STEWART, SCOTT R., 5320 E. 17th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, CO 80220. BS ’78. Manager/Owner of Bird Dog Oil, LLC.

1979

JORDAN, JEFFREY M., 7002 S. Lewis Ct., Littleton, CO 80127. MS ’79, BS ’77. Sr. Environmental Scientist/Environmental Protection Specialist with Resource Manage-ment Concepts, Inc. I started this position in January 2013, and work on the development/oversight of NEPA documents for construction of transit systems (bus, light and heavy rail) in the DOT Region 8 area (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming).

WALLACE, RON, 3650 Garrards Crossing, Roswell, GA 30075. MS ‘79. It’s been a busy year so far as president of AIPG with business meetings and visiting some of our sections. Holly and I have been on trips to Chihuahua, Mexico; Stockholm, Sweden; and Stavanger, Norway. In Mexico visited an active mine, ancient ruins and a large cave system. In Sweden visited a nuclear power plant and a low-level nuclear waste storage facility. Norway was time with friends. I’ve been able to attend both GSA and AAPG conventions.

1980

SPENCER, TIM, 119 East Buck-thorn Rd., Derby, KS 67037. BS

’80. Petroleum Geologist at Vess Oil Corp. Remodeling our summer cabin out in Colorado and looking forward to spending more time out there.

WILLARD, JANE M., 1950 Stanford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105. MS ’80. After almost 25 years run-ning my own consulting firm, I sold the company’s assets to American Engineering Testing and went to work for them. The head of the company was a VP at the company I worked for 25 years ago, and my department manager used to work for me. It has been a surprisingly un-traumatic move, and I don’t plan on retiring in the near future. Both my daughters received their Masters degree in the past year, the older on in multicultural social work and the younger on in structural engineer-ing. Both are fully employed – yay! And both live in the Twin Cities near Mom and Dad – double yay! My husband continues to work for the University of Minnesota in the state’s Pollution Prevention Office, advising a variety of businesses on waste issues.

1981

FILKINS, DAVID, 4955 Pintail Ct., Frederick, MD 21703. BS ’81. Cartographer at NGA. See Denise Filkins (below).

FILKINS (BRINKMEYER), DE-NISE, 4955 Pintail Ct., Frederick, MD 21703. BS ’81. Cartographer with the National Geospatial-Intel-ligence Agency. Now a supervisory geospatial analyst. Our daughter, Elizabeth Filkins, graduated with her MS in Special Education from KU in May 2013. She has returned to Maryland to teach.

1982

GRIFFIN, DAVID B., 1502 West 27th Terr., Lawrence, KS 66046. BS ’82. President at GGR, INC. Business has been exceptional. I incorporated as Griffin Geological Resources, Inc. (GGR) in 2008. I greatly enjoy my work; petroleum geology feels so natural to me. My wife Janice, daughters Lindsey (17) and Christa (14) are all doing great. Still enjoying the pleasures of living in Lawrence. We went to California in August. It was our first vacation to the west coast. Also, I will be bow hunting elk in Idaho this Sep-tember again in a remote wilderness area. An amazing do-it-yourself backpacking adventure in hard rock country. Find myself trying to iden-tify minerals all the time, thanks to Dr. Walton’s well-taught mineral-ogy class from 1979.

1983

KOPASKA-MERKEL, DAVID C., 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa, AL 35404. PhD ’83. This past year I have been involved in writing more papers than any other year. At one time, 11 different publica-tions were at one stage or another of preparation. One of these is a book, Footprints in Stone, which has been accepted for publication by the University of Alabama Press. It is about the Steven C. Minkin Paleo-zoic Footprint site, an important Carboniferous trackway site in the Black Warrior basin of Alabama. A substantial retrospective poetry collection, Luminous Worlds, was published this year by Dark Re-gions Press. I am keeping busy.

1984

PLACE, MICHAEL, 28W010 Garys Mill Rd., Winfield, IL 60190.


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BS ’84. Managing Director of Geo-sphere Solutions, LLC.

PREMO, WAYNE, 2342 Braun Ct., Golden, CO 80402. MS ’84. Research Scientist/Isotope Geolo-gist at the U.S. Geological Survey. Family: Married to Valerie Wil-liams. Three children, three grand-children. Career: Almost 30 years service with the survey. Worked on lunar samples for eight years. Greens Creek, Alaska. Peninsular ranges, California. Proterozoic of Colorado. (See website in GEC Team – Central region)

1985

HOPE, ROSEMARY, 4500 W 53rd Terr., Roeland Park, KS 66205. BA ’85. I am a freelance medical writer in Kansas City; still collecting rocks on vacations.

1986

KILLEN, DAVID, 11611 Melody Garden, Cypress, TX 77429. MS ’86, BS ‘83. Marketing & Proposal Manager with ARCADIS US, Inc.

1987

BLACK, BRIAN ALLEN, 3050 Chelsea Ln., Acworth, GA 30102. BS ‘87. Been pondering this phrase (by James Branch Cabell) lately: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. Ah well, not much going on these last 12 months (“It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon.”) Went to Maine during their heat wave so it was hotter there than Atlanta, evicted some raccoons from the at-tic (with the somewhat unfortunate assistance of one of the cats – but all is well) and said “Well, hello there…” to a rather large (but, luck-

ily, somewhat torpid) rattlesnake on a North Georgia hiking trail. The crew went to England to visit Grannie and Grandpa, but I decided to stay put this year and talk to the NSA (just say “Hello!” randomly in your calls every once in a while). Didn’t find myself doing much in the Realm of Pleasure (Geol-ogy/Geophysics) though did play some games of Angry Birds Space and watched the Young’uns build worlds in Minecraft. Heading down to Florida to go camping in the fall so should see some sinkholes and, most likely, a lot of sand and gnats, which always makes for a Good Time. Hope all is well with every-one and, as always, a bit of Poetry before the Land of Nod is a Good Thing!

STATON, MIKE, 4737 45TH Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105. MS ’87. Principal Geologist at SLR Interna-tional Corp.

1991

HALL, JEAN P., 1123 East 2300 Rd., Eudora, KS 66025. MS ’91. Director for the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies. Our triplets, Christopher, Katie and Jimmy, graduated from high school in May. All are off to college in the fall.

WOJCIK, CHRIS, 2315 Brinton Trails Ln., Katy, TX 77079. PhD ’91. Advisor, Shell Exploration and Production Company. We are back to Houston after four years of adventures in Nigeria. Enjoying our first grandson.

1992

DRAKE, RON, 6211 Quartz Loop, Arvada, CO 80403. BS ’92. Geolo-gist for the US Geological Survey. I

am currently working as an Assess-ment Geologist on the USGS stor-age resource assessment for carbon dioxide in geologic formations within the United States.

1996

STEINLE (BOYD), ANDREA, 22338 Blue Jay Rd., Morrison, CO 80465. BS ’90, MS ’96. Spent the last year in a new role at Noble Energy as a Production Engineer Lead. It’s certainly a new challenge to learn about all the production equipment and processes, but I’ve enjoyed the learning experience. I continue to appreciate my position on the KU Geology Associates Ad-visory Board, and as such, encour-age all our alums to contribute at any level possible to making our new Earth, Energy and Environ-ment Center a reality ASAP.

2001

BERRY, ADRIAN, 1650 Glen Moor Dr., Lakewood, CO 80215. BA’01. Staff Geologist at Anadarko Petroleum. Busy year. Moved to Denver with Anadarko. Carey, our

Alumnus Erik Heimstra, right, congratu-lates student Matt Myers at the Honors Banquet.


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son Chayton and I just welcomed a new baby, Adelaide, into the family.

SHAFER, JOHN, 1700 Heritage Pointe Ct., Plainfield, IL 60586. BS ’01. We moved from Houston to the Chicago area in January 2011 after my wife (Kate) was transferred to the ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery. I left my job as a research scientist at the University of Houston and am now the full-time stay-at-home dad to our 2-year-old girl, Margot. We recently took a vacation to the Black Hills, and I’m pleased to say that Margot is already taking after her dad in enjoying climbing over boulders and looking at rocks, although Curious George is a close second.

VINSON, MICHAEL, 1514 S. Yegua River Cir., Sugar Land, TX 77478. BS ’01. Working for BP.

2003

BADER, KENNETH, 11900 Stone Hollow Dr. Apt. 1336, Austin, TX 78758. BS ’03, MS ’08. Fossil Pre-parator for the Vertebrate Paleontol-ogy Lab, University of Texas.

2006

JOHNSON, BRADY, 1015 N 29th St., Boise, ID 83702. BS ’06. Hy-drogeologist with Idaho DEQ.

2008

SLOAN, STEVE, 115 Willow Creek Cir., Vicksburg, MS 39183. PhD ’08, MS ‘05. Senior Research Geophysicist with XRI Geophysics.

2009

RICE, DANIEL, 136 Autumn Woods Dr., Lacombe, LA 70445. MS ’09. Development Geologist,

Chevron. Allison and I welcomed our first child, Lula Belle, on April 22, 2013. Our beautiful baby girl weighed 7 lb., 3oz. and measured 19.5” long. We are enjoying every moment of parenthood! Since grad-uation, I have been with Chevron in Cavington, LA, working the Gulf of Mexico as an Asset Development Geologist. 2011

BARGNESI, EVAN, 7505 Sutters Mill St., Bakersfield, CA 93313. MS ’11. Geologist at Occidental of Elk Hills, Inc.

CHENG, KWAN YEE, 7312 S. Garnett Rd., Apt. 325, Broken Ar-row, OK 74012. MS ’11. Geophysi-cist at Samson Resources.

LoBUE, DAVID, 565 Pheasant Ct., Grayslake, IL 60030. MS ’11. Adjunct Instructor at Harper Col-lege, Elgin Community College and College of DuPage.

2012

COUNTS, JOHN W., 2/31 West Pallant St., North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006. MS ’12. Doctoral candidate (Geology) at University of Adelaide, in South Australia.

HARING, BENJAMIN, 1132 SW Western Ave., Apt 24, Topeka, KS 66604. MS ’12. Environmental Ge-ologist/Project Manager at the Kan-sas Department of Health and Envi-ronment/Bureau of Environmental Remediation. I have started a small apiary this year and hope to expand into other farming activities soon. Professionally, I am Project Manag-er on contaminated sites across the great state of Kansas. These sites do not have responsible parties and are

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The KU faculty members or alumni pictured on page 53 who are members of the National Academy of Sciences or Engineering are:

A. John Frye (1912-1982)B. Samuel Williston (1851 –

1918)C. Norman Newell (1909 –

2005)D. John Imbrie, Emeritus

Professor, Brown University

E. Alfred Fischer, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California

F. William Fisher, Professor and Barrow Chair, University of Texas-Austin

G. Carl Dunbar (1801 – 1979)H. Hollis Hedberg (1903 –

1988)

being addressed through the State Water Plan Program.

SCHEFFER, AIMEE, 6353 Richmond Ave. #118, Houston, TX 77057. MS ’12. Geologist with Conoco Phillips. Engaged to KU Alum, Mark Villarreal! The wed-ding will be May 3, 2014. Elected: President-elect of AWG (Oct. ’12 – Oct ’13) and became president of AWG (Oct ’13 – Oct ’14).

SCHILLIG, PETER, 55 Green St., Unit D 124, Clinton, MA 01510. PhD ’12, MS ’08. Sr. Staff Geolo-gist at Geosyntec.

VILLARREAL, MARK, 6353 Richmond Ave. #118, Houston, TX 77057. MS ’12. Geologist with Onshore Geologist.


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William (Bill) Weldon Hambleton was born Sept. 10, 1921, in Lancaster, Penn., to Harry Coxen and Ella Moore Hambleton. He was raised in Lancaster and attended McCaskey High School, graduating in 1939. He then attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster where he majored in chemistry and received his bachelor’s degree. At F&M he was on the swim team.

Upon graduating, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and during WWII he served in the European Theatre seeing combat in the Battle of the Bulge with the 335th Battalion, 84th Infantry Division. He earned a Bronze Star for valor and a battlefield promotion to sergeant.

After the war, he married Nancy Jane Schnelli of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and from this union came Ann Louise (1950) and Jeffrey Craig (1952).

Hambleton returned to school under the GI Bill of Rights. He earned his masters degree in geology at Northwestern University in 1947. While at Northwestern, he met Robert Dreyer from Kansas who enticed him to The University of Kansas to do a PhD. Bill completed his doctorate (in geology with a minor in physics) in 1951 with a dissertation on Petrographic Study of Kansas Coals, which was published in 1953 by the Kansas Survey as Bulletin 102, Part 1. While Bill was a student at KU, Nancy was a chemist with the Kansas Geological Survey. Upon completion of his academic studies in 1951, he joined the KU faculty as an assistant professor.

His teaching included courses in geophysics, mineralogy, optical mineralogy, petrography and economic geology. He even had his turn at running the KU Geology Field Camp near Cañon City, Colo., in the summers of 1950 to 1954. Even with his busy teaching schedule, he found time to supervise one doctoral student and five master students in the mid-1950s.

He also managed some research before delving into the geopolitical arena. After completing his doctoral dissertation, he went on to do a magnetic geophysical study in Wilson and Woodson counties, reviewed geophysical activities in Kansas, and edited a Symposium on Geophysics in Kansas, all published by the Kansas Geological Survey.

Although his research and teaching were exemplary, his greatest strength was in administration. In 1954, Hambleton joined the KGS as assistant director and gradually took over the administrative duties of running the Survey. He advanced from assistant director to associate director in 1956 and became director on Frank Foley’s retirement in 1970. He could see changes coming, such as the computer revolution. Hambleton adjusted the individuals and the organization to meet them, and in this way kept ahead of changes and was always prepared for the future.

He was active in University affairs serving as associate dean of the Graduate School and associate dean of faculties.

William W. Hambleton 1921-2012

He was on many committees and served on the Board of Directors for the Center for Research and chaired the Senate Council. He also served as Energy Advisor to governors George Docking and Robert Bennett. In addition, he was active in professional and government committees, serving on many commissions, councils, and task forces. In addition he gave time to community service.

Because of his background, Hambleton was in many ways a modern renaissance man with a wide range of interests. His fascination with geology led him to interpreting landscapes of the art masters in a geological context. Hambleton showed himself to be an excellent writer and through the years prepared a series of essays on different subjects to present as introductions to meetings, summaries of those meetings, or to civic or legislative groups. The subjects of those essays ranged from music to conservation, preservation and pollution to the law; all are thought provoking. Some of the more notable speeches (16 of them) were collected in a volume and published by KGS in 1987.

In honor of his contributions, Hambleton Hall on the KU West Campus was dedicated in his name in 1987. The funds were provided by a special fee administered by the Kansas Corporation Commission on intents to drill for oil or gas in the state. Hambleton also oversaw enlarging the facilities of the Well Sample Library building in Wichita. In 1987 he received the KU Department of Geology’s Haworth Distinguished Alumni Award.

Hambleton turned over the reins of the KGS to his successor Lee Gerhard when he retired Jan. 31, 1986, but he remained active even in retirement.

He was fortunate to have as a partner in his lifetime work, a companion and loving wife Nancy, who supported his efforts in addition to keeping up with her own interests and the family. They made a great team.

Hambleton died on Oct. 4, 2012, in a Lawrence, Kan., retirement home following a prolonged illness.

Acknowledgment: I want to thank Jeff Hambleton for information about his father and family and John C. Davis for information on some of Bill’s geological contributions.

References

Anonymous, 1998, Hard-rock geologist returns his attention to the arts: G-Hawker, Fall 1998, p. 28.

Hambleton, W.W., 1987, Selected speeches: Kansas Geol. Survey; Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, 193 p.

Merriam, D.F., 2004, In honor of KU geology’s WWII vets: G-Hawker Fall 2004, p. 24-31.

Merriam, D.F., 2009, Geology at The University of Kansas, the first century (1966-1966) and a bit beyond: Univ. Kansas Dept. Geology and Paleon. Institute, Spec. Publ. 6, 210 p.

Merriam, D.F., 2010, In Appreciation (W.W. Hambleton): G-Hawker Fall 2010, p. 42-43.

- Dan Merriam Department Historian

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MEMORIALSHarold S. Hall (mining engineering ’37), 97, died Nov. 22, 2012, in his home overlooking the Mississippi River in Louisiana, Mo. Hall grew up in Newton, Kan. After graduat-ing from KU, he worked as a Mining Engineer in Freemont County, Wyoming, and as a Topographic Field Engineer for the U.S. Geological Survey. World War II interrupted his career, and he served as an Aviation Meteorologist in the Pa-cific. In 1944, he married Miriam Gay Gulley of Farmerville, LA. After the war, he returned to work with the USGS. At the survey, he participated in revolutionary changes in meth-ods and procedures for making topographical maps. Hall served as Field Project Engineer, Planning Engineer in the Office of Plans and Program Development, District Engineer, and Chief of the Branch of Plans and Production. He received a Meritorious Service Award from the Depart-ment of the Interior. Hall retired from the Mid-Continent Mapping Center in 1976. His wife Mimi, three children, Ralph, Mary Dee, Flora and three grandsons, survive him.

George McNeish (BS ’51), 84, of Winfield, Kan., died May 3, 2013, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. A retired geologist who ran his own business, McNeish Oil Operations, McNeish loved KU basketball, and cheered for the 1988 and 2008 national champion teams. His philan-thropies include KU Williams Fund, the Wichita Symphony, Southwestern College and the YMCA. He and Marilyn, his wife of almost 59 years, founded Cumbernauld Village, a continuing care retirement community in Winfield. He

KU paleontologist Larry Martin died March 9 after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. Martin served as a pro-fessor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University since 1972.

“Larry was a close collaborator with the Department and particularly with the paleontology faculty,” says Chair Luis A. González. “He served as graduate and undergraduate advisor to many students in our Department. His enthusiasm for vertebrate paleontology was contagious and inspired many at KU and elsewhere to pursue careers as vertebrate paleontologists. He was never afraid to think out of the box and to challenge his colleagues to do so, too. Larry will be greatly missed by many of us here at KU and elsewhere.”

Martin published more than 170 scientific papers in the most prestigious journals, and books. He received numer-ous research grants from NSF, National Geographic, NASA and many other funders. Well known for his mentoring of students, Martin’s graduates are among the most influential paleontologists working today. They include paleobiologists who are now scientific leaders in the People’s Republic of

served in Korea with the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and received a Bronze Star, among other medals. He was a founding contributor to the Korean War Veterans Memorial. He also served as Winfield’s mayor in the late 1960s. He is survived by Marilyn; their children Greg (a KU graduate), Tom (a KU graduate), Marya and Jerry; and their spouses and children and grandchildren.

The Department has learned that Bruce Allan Thompson (BS’61) died of cancer about two years ago. “He was the best Rocky Mountain geologist,” says Dave Rochna (MS ’61) .

Larry Martin1943 - 2013

China, South Korea and universities around the world. Mar-tin also made numerous television appearances on the PBS series NOVA and on the Discovery Channel to talk about saber-toothed cats, dinosaurs and birds.

Leonard Krishtalka, director of KU’s Biodiversity Insti-tute, praised Martin.

“Larry’s research expertise and interests were enormous, ranging from the evolution and behavior of dinosaurs, extinct sea monsters and fossil birds, to the anatomy and history of saber-toothed cats, to the changing environments of North American during the past 30 million years and how animals adapted to those changes.”

Martin was born in Bartlett, Neb., the son of Orval and Nellie Frye Martin. As a young man, he played high school football, wrestled in college and worked as a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Nebraska. Martin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He received his PhD from KU.

Martin is survived by his wife, Jean, and two daughters.

Harold S. Hall, back row and far left, and other KU Geology students pose at Colorado’s Garden of the Gods in 1936.


ALUMNI NEWS

FACULTYKELSEY S. BITTING, Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers

University, 2013; geoscience education, geomorphology, sedimentology.ROSS A. BLACK, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Wyoming,

1990; geophysics, reflection seismology.J. F. DEVLIN, Professor; Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1994;

hydrogeology/contaminant transport.DAVID A. FOWLE, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame,

2000; geomicrobiology, aqueous geochemistry, limnology.EVAN K. FRANSEEN, Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1989,

carbonates, sequence stratigraphy.ROBERT H. GOLDSTEIN, Merrill Haas Distinguished Professor; Ph.D.,

University of Wisconsin, 1986; sequence stratigraphy, diagenesis, fluid inclusion studies of carbonates.

LUIS A. GONZÁLEZ, Professor and Chair; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989; stable isotopes, carbonate geochemistry, and diagenesis, paleoclimate.

STEPHEN T. HASIOTIS, Professor; Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997; paleontology, ichnology, sequence stratigraphy, terrestrial paleoecology.

DIANE L. KAMOLA, Associate Scientist; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1989; sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, clastic sedimentology.

GWENDOLYN L. MACPHERSON, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1989; hydrogeology.

ALISON N. OLCOTT MARSHALL, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2006; paleobiogeochemistry.

CRAIG P. MARSHALL, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2001; organic geochemistry.

NOAH M. MCLEAN, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012; Thermochronology. (arriving Fall 2014)

ANDREAS MÖLLER, Assistant Professor; Dr. rer. nat., University of Kiel, Germany, 1996; petrology, isotope geochemistry.

EUGENE C. RANKEY, Associate Professor; Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 1996; sedimentary systems, coastal geomorphology.

JENNIFER A. ROBERTS, Associate Professor; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2000; microbial hydrogeology.

PAUL A. SELDEN, Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor, Director, Paleontological Institute; Ph.D., Cantab, 1979; paleobiology of arthropoda (especially Chelicerata and Miriapoda), paleoecology.

LEIGH STEARNS, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., The University of Maine, 2007; glaciology.

DON W. STEEPLES, McGee Distinguished Professor and Vice Provost; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975; shallow seismic reflection, crustal analyses, and microearthquake recording.

RANDY L. STOTLER, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 2008; hydrogeology.

MICHAEL H. TAYLOR, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2004; neotectonics and continental deformation.

GEORGE P. TSOFLIAS, Associate Professor; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1999; geophysics, hydrogeophysics, ground-penetrating radar.

J. DOUGLAS WALKER, Union Pacific Resources Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985; structural geology, geochronology, tectonics.

ANTHONY W. WALTON, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1972; sedimentology of siliciclastic and volcaniclastic rocks.

MUSEUM OF INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGYMICHELLE CASEY, Collection Manager; Ph.D., Yale University, 2011;

Invertebrate Paleontology.UNA FARRELL, Collection Manager; Ph.D., Yale University, 2011;

Invertebrate Paleontology.

EMERITUS FACULTYERNEST E. ANGINO, Emeritus Professor; Ph.D., University of Kansas,

1961; geochemistry.WAKEFIELD DORT, Jr., Emeritus Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University,

1955; geomorphology, Pleistocene geology, archaeological geology.

Faculty and Staff: Academic Year 2013-2014PAUL ENOS, Emeritus Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Yale University,

1965; carbonate geology.CARL D. McELWEE, Emeritus Professor; Ph.D., University of Kansas,

1971; physical hydrogeology, geophysics.RICHARD A. ROBISON, Emeritus Distinguished Professor; Ph.D.,

University of Texas at Austin, 1962; paleontology.ALBERT J. ROWELL, Emeritus Professor, Senior Curator, Museum of

Invertebrate Paleontology; Ph.D., Leeds, 1953; quantitative methods in geology. Paleontology, Antarctic geology.

WILLIAM R. VAN SCHMUS, Emeritus Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1964; geochemistry, meteorites, geochronology.

PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTEMIKE CORMACK, Information Specialist; Ph.D., Philosophy, University

of Kansas, 1999.JILL HARDESTY, Assistant Editor; BA, French; BS, Secondary

Education, University of Kansas, 1988; MA, Art History, University of Kansas, 1992.

DENISE MAYSE, Office Manager; BS, Business Administration, Mars Hill College, 1980.

SUPPORT NUCLEUSJOE ANDREW, Research Associate, 2009-presentJASON ASH, Information Specialist I, 2006-presentYOLANDA BALDERAS, Student Affairs Manager, 1998-present.GREG CANE, Laboratory Manager, 2007-present.WAYNE DICKERSON, Research Technician, 2008-present.JOSHUA FELDMAN, Laboratory Technician, 2012-present.ELIZABETH K. GRAVATT, Alumni Coordinator, 1998-present.CARI PERKINS, Administrative Associate Sr., 2012-present IAN J. ROWELL, Information Specialist, 1981-present.MARIA SWINGER-INSKEEP, Business Manager, 2011-present.MASATO UESHIMA, Research Assistant, 2009-present.YOKO UESHIMA, Laboratory Technician, 2012-present.

COURTESY & ADJUNCT FACULTYMICHAEL D. BLUM, Senior Research Assoc., ExxonMobilGEOFFREY BOHLING, Associate Scientist, KGSANDREA BROOKFIELD, Assistant Scientist, KGS.DAVID BURNHAM, Preparation Sup, Biodiversity Institute.JAMES BUTLER, Senior Scientist, KGS.TIM CARR, Distinguished Professor, West Virginia University.JOHN DOVETON, Senior Scientific Fellow, KGS.GISELA DRESCHHOFF, Research Associate Professor.MIKE ENGEL, Professor – Senior Curator, Ecology & Evolutionary

Biology.JOHN GOSSE, Adjunct Associate Professor, Dalhousie University.DAVID GRAHAM, Adjunct Professor.WILLIAM JOHNSON, Professor, Geography.LEONARD KRISHTALKA, Director, Natural History Museum &

Biodiversity Res. Ctr.; Professor, Ecology & Evol. Biology.BRUCE LIEBERMAN, Professor - Senior Curator, Ecology &

Evolutionary Biology.GAISHENG LIU, Courtesy Professor, KGSGREG LUDVIGSON, Senior Scientist, KGS.ROLFE MANDEL, SeniorScientist, KGS.MICHAEL T. MEYER, Hydrologist, USGS.RICHARD MILLER, Associate Scientist, KGS.BRUCE ROTHSCHILD, Adjunct Research Associate, Biodiversity

InstituteJON J. SMITH, Principal Geologist, KGSMARIOS A. SOPHOCLEOUS, Courtesy Professor, KGS.EDITH TAYLOR, Professor – Senior Curator, Ecology & Evolutionary

Biology; Curator, Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Res. Ctr.THOMAS N. TAYLOR, Distinguished Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary

Biology; Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Res. Center.

W. LYNN WATNEY, Senior Scientific Fellow, KGS.DONALD O. WHITTEMORE, Senior Scientific Fellow, KGS.


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Departmental Faculty E-Mail PhoneKelsey Bitting [email protected] 785-864-1041Ross A. Black [email protected] 785-864-2740J. F. Devlin [email protected] 785-864-4994 or -2913David A. Fowle [email protected] 785-864-2128 or -1955Evan K. Franseen [email protected] 785-864-2723 or -2072Robert H. Goldstein [email protected] 785-864-2738Luis A. González [email protected] 785-864-2743 or -7750Stephen T. Hasiotis [email protected] 785-864-4941Diane L. Kamola [email protected] 785-864-2724 or -7712Gwen L. Macpherson [email protected] 785-864-2742Craig P. Marshall [email protected] 785-864-4974Andreas Möller [email protected] 785-864-1447Alison Olcott Marshall [email protected] 785-864-2943 or 1917Eugene C. Rankey [email protected] 785-864-4971Jennifer A. Roberts [email protected] 785-864-4997Paul A. Selden [email protected] 785-864-7251Leigh Stearns [email protected] 785-864-4202Don W. Steeples [email protected] 785-864-2730Randy L. Stotler [email protected] 785-864-4974Michael H. Taylor [email protected] 785-864-5828George P. Tsoflias [email protected] 785-864-4584J. Douglas Walker [email protected] 785-864-2735 or -7711Anthony W. Walton [email protected] 785-864-2726

Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology

Michelle Casey [email protected] 785-864-2747Una Farrell [email protected] 785-864-2747

Emeritus FacultyErnest E. Angino [email protected] 785-864-2736Wakefield Dort, Jr. [email protected] 785-864-2729Paul Enos [email protected] 785-864-2744Carl D. McElwee [email protected] 785-864-2728 Richard A. Robison [email protected] 785-864-2739Albert J. Rowell [email protected] 785-864-2747W. R. Van Schmus [email protected] 785-864-2727 or -3676

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LOOKING FOR LOST G-HAWKSThe former geology students listed below are lost as far as the alumni database is concerned. Please look through the list to see if you recognize anyone. If you have news of them, let us know. We’re interested in addresses, name changes, employer names and addresses or anything else you can tell us. We’d love to retire these folks from the land of the lost.

1941-1950Ted Beaver, BS ‘50Robert M. Castator, BS’49 James D. Chappell, BS’41, MengAlbert J. Hanners, ’43Walter L. Hurt, ’48Robert James Mann, ’45Ernest E. Pelzer, ’50George H. Spivey, ’50

1951-1960Roger Arbour, ’60Allen N. Bates, ’57Charles E. Beardslee, ’60William L. Brown, MA’54John Vincent Combi, ’56Victor C. Cope Jr., BS’56Thomas L. Downs, BA’56Robert John Emmanuel, ’51James Ray Fasbender, ’54William Gordon George, ’57Randall Kay Graber, BS’52Lewis Donald Gurman, ’60Julian W. Hawryszko, MS’57Robert W. Heil, BS’59 Lonnie J. Hopkins, ’59George R. Huebner, BS’57,MEngGerald Arlo James, ’54William K. Johnston, ’56Robert H. Kuckelman, BS’53,

MEngJean Lacasse, ’60Donald Lee Lamar, ’53Arthur David Lapadat, ’60Arthur A. McGinnis, BS’51,

MEngJack Morelock, ’55Fred Charles Myers, Jr., ’51Jesus Ojeda‑Rivera, ’59Dale Romaine Olson, ’54Reed H. Peterson, ’51George W. Plant, BS’52 Homer U. Ries, ’51Herman Ewers Simpson, ’59Charles J. Sloanaker, MS’51John Willis Strickland, ’51Robert Lowell Tedrick, BS’60Verna Mae Torres, ’60Patricia (Morgridge) Tucker,

BS ‘56Cleo E. Vague, BS ‘51Ivo George Vonderwell, ’59Dwight E. Waddell, ’59Jay D. Whiteford, BS’54Wayne P. Wright, BS’51William A. Wycherley, ’54

1961-1970Ibrahim Abd El Wahid, MS’63Jimmie Dean Bowman, ’61Eugene O. Bowser, ’61Dean K. Bryson, ’63Earl H. Budke Jr., ’68

John J. Coble, ’68Faramarz Frouzan, ’63Robert Jacob Garrecht, ’64Karl Lesley Geller, ’67Carolyn Lee Griffin, ’68Reginald V. Hicks, MS ‘62Peter W. Huelsenbeck, ’64John Huh, BA ‘68Robert Clement Koch, ’64Paul Lerner, ’64Tommy R. McKellar, MS’62Mustafa A. Mitwalli, ’61James W. H. Monger, MS ‘61Harry W. Mueller III, ’68Theodor Neague, ’69Tomohide Nohara, ‘67Albert F. Noonan, ’70Jin Sang Oh, ’67Yacoub Ahmad Qandil, BA’59,

MS’61Charles G. Roberts, ’69Richard Harvey Roda, ’63Malcom B. Roy, MS’66Dennis Wayne Slater, ’69Paul Lewis Steineck, ’63Bruce Allan Thompson, ’61Thomas L. Teer, ’69Howard C. Thornton, Jr., BA’67Clyde T. Williams, BA’62

1971-1980Yacoub Y. Alhajji, ’74Gholamhosien Bangali, ’73Faustin Bangole‑Yenvou, BS’75Carlos A. Belfort, ’71Bipinkumar Bhatt, ’74J. Dennis Brewer, ’80Andra D. Cohran, ’72Roy E. Cox, ’76Jafar Dirin, ’73Maria B. Edwards, ’74Abdurrazak A. Endisha, BS’79Susan L. Fezie, ’76James Hontos, ’73Dale D. Hudson, BS’74Daniel T. Jenkins, ’76Sandra R. Malmberg, ’80James E. Mathewson, ’75Stephen McGie, ’79Marvin B. McKinney, ’73J. Peter Mills, MS ‘65,PHD ‘74Adam Morawski, BS ‘77Francois R. Nguene, MS ‘78Yaw Ntiamoah‑Agyakwa, ’79Adeleke Odutola, BS ‘72Kyle D. Parker, ’80Maryette Hanson Rogers,’75Sigfrido P. Santiago, ’72David F. Schmidt, ’76Takeshi Setoguchi, ’71Ali Seyrafian, MS’78Lyle R. Silka, ’74Betty Jean Socha, ’76

Benja Songsirikul, MS’78Robert H. Teifke, MS’72Elizabeth Trainor, ’75Michael C. Whisler, ’80Robert S. Woods, ’78David T. Wilson, BS’73Leonard L. Woolsey, MS’71

1981-1990Talat Younis Abdullah, MS’84Zulkifly Ab Rahim, BS’85Keyvan Aliabadi, ’89Gregory Bown Andersen, ’82Cihat H. Basocak, ’81Victoria Bennett, ’90Barbara Biggers, ’85Carol Dixon Brinton, ’81Jeffrey A. Burk, ‘84Mehemmed A. Busifi, BS’82Edward Le Carper, ’85Scott Dennis Coon, ’83Randy Louis Corey, ’81Bruce A. Cox, ‘82Richard James Cox, ’81Troy Randal Curran, ’85David C. Daniel, ’82Rodziah Haji Daud, BS’86Pablo Alfonso Delgado, ’86Ute Doring, ’90Mary Wier Dossett, ’83Rene Christine Elwood, ’81Usama M. Fergiani, ’82Eric D. Goldman, ’86Mark Wayne Grommesh, ’82Alexander Hagens, ’89Donald H. Harrison, Jr., ’81Jason C. Heath, ’90

Dennis G. Hitz, ’81Hann‑Chen Huang, ’80Steve Kuoyi Huang, ’82Dan R. James, ’82Jeffrey Lee Jones, ’89Susan C. Kent, ’81David Alan Kvam, ’82Mastura Abdul Malik, BS’86Jeffery Scott McCoy, ’83Andrea Lou McEachern, ’82Kevin Earl McFarland, ’82Kamal T. Moghadam, ’85Muftah Giuma Mohamed, ’83Ali Muftah Mshirab, ’82Soheila Nasseri, BS ‘83Rebecca D. (Heiniger) Clark, ’83George C. Outlaw, ’83Mitch R. Powers, ’90Reyes Jacobo Quesada, ’86Kim G. Rightmire, ’87Charles E. Schabel, ’82Monsef Swedan, BS ‘81Milos Velechovsky, MS ‘85Michael A. Wheeler, ’84Stephen E. Wiseman, ’81Di Zhou, PHD’85Mark Hamilton Ziegler, ’81Timothy J. Zolnowski, ’81

1991-2000Todd Alan Campbell, ’91Tyan‑Ming Chu, PhD’96Aaron W. Cox, ’95Joseph John Keeling, ‘92Margaret S. Mills, MS ’92, PhD ’94Stephanie Ann Ruegnitz, ’92Ana C. Villella, MS, ’99

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Publisher: Luis A. GonzálezFaculty Editors: J.F. Devlin and Andreas MöllerEditor: Diane SilverAssistant Editors: Liz Gravatt, Cari PerkinsLayout: Paula Courtney, CLAS Digital Media ServicesDepartment Historian: Dan MerriamContributors: Jim Funk, Luis A. González, Dan Merriam, Kansas Geological Survey, Diane Silver

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